Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Welles

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

Orson Welles

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Orson Welles

A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.

Orson Welles

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

Orson Welles

Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

Ornette Coleman

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

Ornette Coleman

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

Ornette Coleman

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

Ornette Coleman

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

Ornette Coleman

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

Orlando Bloom

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

Orlando Bloom

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Orlando Bloom

The thing about fame, is you never think it's going to happen to you. So when it does, it's sort of a shock. Some people are just better at it than others.

Oriana Fallaci

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.

Orhan Pamuk

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Orhan Pamuk

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.

Orison Swett Marden

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

Orison Swett Marden

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Orison Swett Marden

To think you can creates the force that can.

Olympia Snowe

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Omar Bongo

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

Olympia Dukakis

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Olympia Dukakis

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Olympia Dukakis

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

Omar Khayyam

We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand ...

Olivia Holt

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Oliver Stone

I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

Oliver Stone

The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.