Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Pill

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

Anthony Jeselnik

Sure, my uncle killed himself playing Russian Roulette. But I choose to remember him as a great Russian Roulette player.

Anthony Jeselnik

You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.

Ann Brashares

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Ann Brashares

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself. ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product.

Andy Dick

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

Andrzej Wajda

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Andy Garcia

My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

Andrea Jung

The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!

Kate Hudson

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

Alan Cohen

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

Halle Berry

There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

Where can I find such a person who is liberated, and who can unite me with my God?

We're not going to have credibility overnight, and we understand that.

Kailash Kher

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Henry Selick

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

Harold Feinstein

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

Adrian Grenier

Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Adam Johnson

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Albert Einstein

Peace comes through understanding

Albert Einstein

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

Alfred North Whitehead

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.