Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis B. Smedes

The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Indra Nooyi

I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.

Nick Cave

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

Lauren Socha

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

Luke Evans

I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one.

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Errol Morris

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.

Erik Bruhn

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Jenn Proske

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

When you're playing every snap, the problem is you can't give 110 percent on every play.

Alec Guinness

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Aleister Crowley

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Alberto Moravia

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Albert Einstein

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Albert Einstein

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Albert Einstein

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Albert Einstein

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

Albert Einstein

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

Alfred Stieglitz

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Alfred North Whitehead

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Alfred North Whitehead

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

Aldo Leopold

An oak is no respecter of persons.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.