Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Alex Ferguson

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

Alden Ehrenreich

I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

Aldrich Ames

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

Alec Baldwin

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Alec Baldwin

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

Alec Baldwin

If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.

Aldous Huxley

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Kristin Hannah

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

Dale Carnegie

The thing is to get the work done.

Anthony Kiedis

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

John Muir

Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.

Gerald R. Ford

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

Jim Croce

After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.

Jencarlos Canela

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Harold Budd

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece

Gus Van Sant

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.