Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jack Kerouac

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

Jack Finney

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

J. C. Watts

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

J. B. Priestley

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

Isabel Allende

I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Isabel Allende

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

Because of our past success, every place we go in the league, teams get after us.

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.

I never got ran past like that in my life.

I really thought we were past it and I think he thought so, too. It actually surprised me yesterday.

Marvin Sapp

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.

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,

It takes one person to work a flight, whereas in the past it took a few.

Ryan Dempster

It's way past my bedtime, so it's good.

It's time. It's way past time, quite frankly.

Roy Williams

It used to be you could not play well and (still) get past these first two rounds. Not anymore.

They've got more room to move, and they will move. That's what they've always done in past recessions and what they'll do again.