Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katie Aselton

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

Ajay Naidu

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Wayne Huizenga

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

Tim Gunn

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Passion is no respecter of persons. She hardly seems to select her victims.

Mark Zandi

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Stanislav Grof

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Harvey Mackay

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

Francesco Guicciardini

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

Haile Selassie

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Zack Snyder

People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

Catherine Hicks

People always want you to look pretty. I would like to live in the Midwest in a small town and never put makeup on. But they won't let you do that. Once I went through a period when I did do that, wore no makeup, wore my hair any which way, and people looked at me like I was a bum.

Anthony Carmona

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

Marion Cotillard

Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

Gay Talese

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people

Thomas A. Edison

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Anita Diament

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

Woody Allen

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Benazir Bhutto

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Steven Weber

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

Hunter Hayes

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

Richard Krajicek

Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

Arthur Rimbaud

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Thomas Moore

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

William Kristol

Romney has to convince the American public that they need to do something they're not usually inclined to do - replace a sitting president with a challenger. And unlike in 1980 and 1992, when the public was persuaded to do just that, the incumbent president has not been weakened by a primary opponent.

Ben Affleck

Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

Anton Yelchin

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

Nikolai Gogol

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Georges Bataille

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Ezra Taft Benson

Sacrifice is truly the crowning test of the gospel. Men are tried and tested in this mortal probation to see if they will put first in their lives the kingdom of God.

Phyllis Logan

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

Pat Gillick

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.

Jonathan Carroll

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

Chita Rivera

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

Art Alexakis

'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

Yvonne Strahovski

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.

Michael Scheuer

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.

Mae West

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

James Galway

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Katie Lowes

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Chuck Berry

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Richard Jefferies

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Walter Jon Williams

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Jean Rostand

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.