Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Bill Watterson

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

Bill Watterson

We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Edward Furlong

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

Chris Colfer

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Cass Sunstein

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

Carlos Fuentes

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Agnetha Faltskog

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Dennis Kucinich

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Bill Gates

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

David Nail

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

Bellamy Young

Id love to go back and do theater. Theres nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

Daniel H. Wilson

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Allen Ginsberg

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

Ali MacGraw

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Debbie Allen

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

Debbie Macomber

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

Tom Clancy

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Sallust

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Stefan Zweig

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.