Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Claire Tomalin

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

W. S. Gilbert

We found historic letters showing that Lord Stanley directed his aid-de-camp to travel to England to purchase the Cup. That was an interesting historical find.

Atal Vajpayee

A meeting ground will have to be found. Our efforts will be directed towards that,

Hank McKinnell

They had been putting the same percentage increase on each quarter, and in an unusually low quarter like last year that didn't' work, ... So we directed them to take down their second-quarter estimates through our guidance.

Paul Schrader

It's an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, a real melodrama, which I wrote and directed and financed. Nobody paid me to do this film. If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic side.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Brenda Shields

A set of universally enforced rules and regulations directed at increasing the safety of cheerleading should be implemented.

Lily James

People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.

Edith Wharton

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Daymond John

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Luke Bracey

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.

Robert Fraser

We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.

John Burness

There are some folks who want us to do a full investigation ourselves. But the fact of the matter is this is a police investigation, and we can't impede it. The more information we have, if the allegations are true, there will be grave consequences.

Terrell Falk

When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen.

Ridley Scott

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

Brian Miller

The most successful (Austin) filmmakers are intensely loyal. The people who do well here tend not to go off to LA. They stay here.

Ethan Thillo

There are more Latino movies, made by Latino filmmakers and more people interested in Latino cinema.

Rick Parry

We were interested. There was not a lack of co-operation from us. But the filmmakers got sponsorship from Adidas - not Reebok. And Adidas sponsor Newcastle, while Reebok sponsor Liverpool.

James Ransone

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

Jeremy Thomas

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

Scott Rice

Meeting all the other filmmakers has been such a blessing,

Colin Trevorrow

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

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.

Dieter Kosslick

We don't have any formal motto this year. We have many films that show a tough world the way it really is.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Charles Dickens

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Charles Dickens

The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.

Charles Dickens

It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.

Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

Charles Caleb Colton

When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.

Charles Caleb Colton

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

Noah Wyle

Boy, oh, boy, people get jaded fast. I got nominated for an Emmy.

Jenna Elfman

It's a cliche, but just being nominated is cool.

Mark Moller

She's in the pocket of the president who nominated her,

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Stein

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Alan Jackson

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Alan Jackson

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

Alan Greenspan

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Alan Arkin

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.

Alan Arkin

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Alan Ball

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Al Roker

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

Al Pacino

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

Al Lewis

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.