Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Celia Johnson

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

Saffron Burrows

Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

Anna Friel

I've never been to a live match but now having made this film I'm going to - I'm going to Real Madrid so it'll be done with a bang!

Kristin Scott Thomas

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

Kim Cattrall

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

Tilda Swinton

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

Tilda Swinton

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

Tilda Swinton

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

Charles Dickens

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Edward Hirsch

One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one of the most intoxicating features of poetry. It creates expectations, which can be fulfilled or frustrated. It can create a sense of boredom and complacency, but it can also incite enchantment and inspire bliss.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Maajid Nawaz

Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.

Jeff Mittie

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Gavin Hood

We grew up watching American films and I hope that Americans will watch our stories.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Natalie Massenet

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Nathaniel Smith

If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.

Greg Nossaman

When we were down nine on Thursday night, we knew Brandon would be able to play Saturday, so we said, let's try to (win this) so he can play another game. That was motivational.

Ray Allen

When I was open, I just knew it was time to make a shot.

Mike Rumph

When I was in sixth grade, honestly, I thought I knew everything. I still don't know nothing. I'm still learning stuff.

Katie Leclerc

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

Jim McCarthy

When we had that warm weather in January, we knew we were going to be in trouble.

Doug Baggett

When we got down 10 or 12, I knew we were in trouble.

Jeremy Northam

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.

Cesare Pavese

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It is not about accounting. It is about lies and choices.

Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Susan Love

Breast cancer: Where we are and what lies ahead.

Proverbs

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Paul O'Neill

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Robert Winston

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

Robert Towne

Colin, Salma, me - none of us took salaries in order to make this movie, in order to get it on film. So it was a movie made on spec.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Mike Hargrove

Somebody's got to separate themselves from the pack, and none of them has done it so far. But we've still got time.

J. J. Johnson

This is something none of us could've predicted.

Wayne Fields

The West was very disorienting - vast, big, rough, dislocating. None of that represented home.

Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Thomas Blood

I'll answer to none but the King himself.

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

S. Hughes

Everyone wants to know, what's your secret? Nothing! No secrets. I'll tell you what's in my chili.

Ryan Scolpini

She's pitched every time we've played. There will be no secrets there. They'll know she'll pitch.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Sandra Brown

Even we have secrets here in Middleburg, Florida, even though we're on Wisteria Lane,