Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cronenberg

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

David Cronenberg

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.

Don Imus

I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

Douglas Brinkley

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

Douglas Adams

And so the Universe ended.

Douglas Adams

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

Douglas Adams

SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom

Donald Johanson

In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

Donald Knuth

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Colin Powell

The president's personal staff has a unique role

Colin Powell

President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.

Clara Barton

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Daniel Pinkwater

Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction.

Daniel Radcliffe

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

Dan Harris

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

Damian Marley

Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce...

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Clive Barker

Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.

e. e. cummings

i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

E. B. White

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

Dusty Baker

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Douglas Gresham

There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around with things they don't understand. It's movie magic. Then there is the magic of the evil side of things. The demonic forces. And that's not really magic... it's corruption of what really exists. And then finally there is the magic of the Holy Spirit of God which is the creation and maintenence of the universe. We don't understand it... and we haven't the faintest idea how He does it. But it's real. That's the deep magic.

Douglas Kennedy

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

Douglas Coupland

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Douglas Coupland

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Andre Gide

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Andre Gide

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

Andre Gide

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

Andre Gide

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.