Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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 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.

Akshay Kumar

On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

Akshay Kumar

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

Bong Joon-ho

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

Georgina Chapman

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Salma Hayek

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

Roger Ebert

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

Charles Caleb Colton

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

Antony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

William Shakespeare

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

William Shakespeare

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

Kurt Vonnegut

This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Cass Sunstein

This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.

Carl Douglas

It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.

C. S. Lewis

See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

Charlotte Bronte

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.