Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard D. Zanuck

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

Raymond Chandler

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

Rick Scott

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.

Rick Scott

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Rick Riordan

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. - Pan

Tracie Peterson

Instead of asking Him to remember you, why not pray to find comfort and value where He has taken you.

Torii Hunter

With faith, I know that everything will be taken care of. Even the difficult times become learning experiences to help make my faith stronger.

Tony Snow

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

Veronica Roth

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

Vik Muniz

Perhaps the first photograph ever taken, Niépce's view of the rooftops over Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, was a truly pure photograph. The second one he took, he was already comparing nature to the first photograph he had taken.

Ridley Scott

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Samuel Adams

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

Tariq Ramadan

I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

T. S. Eliot

Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.

Sylvia Browne

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Sylvia Earle

It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us.

Sylvia Earle

Santa Monica Bay is less polluted today than when I first moved to the area in the 1970s, because actions have been taken to avoid putting some of the noxious materials into the sea. I think people are more aware than they once were, the air is cleaner, water generally is, in spite of the fact that there are more people.

Sylvia Earle

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together.

Sylvester Stallone

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

Susan Sontag

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Susan Sontag

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

Susan Sontag

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

Scott Adams

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

Ray Nagin

I dont think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.

Ratan Tata

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

Stephen King

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

Stephanie Mills

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

Stanley Tucci

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Stan Smith

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Stan Lee

What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years where's anything of interest to people?

Sophie Dahl

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.