Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elvis Costello

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Elvis Costello

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.

Guy Laliberte

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Guy Pearce

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

Glenn McGrath

You expect to cop a bit wherever you go. In the past there hasn't been any racism or any racist comments that I've seen. I'm expecting a tough time, as we get everywhere we go, but racism hasn't been a problem before.

Glenn Gould

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Harry Browne

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Harold MacMillan

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

Grant-Lee Phillips

It's not an insult to have a past and to have some accountability to it.

Ingmar Bergman

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

Jack Kornfield

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Jack Kornfield

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today,

Jack Canfield

Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

Jack Canfield

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

J. G. Ballard

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Ivica Dacic

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

Ivica Dacic

Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past,

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.

Italo Calvino

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

Italo Calvino

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Irving Thalberg

The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.

Jen Kirkman

I have some pretty wonderful friendships, so that's been really good for me. In the past year, I've really worked on that. I think when I was married, I let my friendships go. I think people thought, "Oh, because she's married now, she's so happy all the time." But I really was just isolated in my house.

Jeannette Walls

My life is not just about the past.

Jeannette Walls

Interesting people always have a past.

Jeremy Hardy

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

Jeremy Luke

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

Jeremy Jones

In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.

Jennifer Gilmore

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

Jeff Cohen

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

Jeff Buckley

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.