Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Ann Brashares

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Allan Ramsay

It's going to take some time for the impact to become clear.

Newt Gingrich

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.

Margaret Thatcher

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

Margaret Chan

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Jon Nadler

That's a pretty big impact on the drivers.

Jon Bergtheil

Exits from the baskets could have a disproportionately larger impact on the less-liquid metal markets.

Marty Natalegawa

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

Lawrence M. Krauss

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

Leslie Nielsen

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

Phil Gramm

You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Phyllis McGinley

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

Julian Barnes

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Julian Barnes

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Joss Whedon

Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

Joseph O'Neill

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Justin Halpern

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Pearl Norris

We thought it was a warehouse but when we opened it, the pews were still in it.

Conor McGregor

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

Erykah Badu

I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.

Fannie Flagg

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Faith Hill

I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

George Meredith

The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

George Orwell

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Jeremy Sumpter

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Gracie Allen

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water!