Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Ian Frazier

I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

Mario Cuomo

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

William Cowper

. . . words, pregnant with celestial fire.

George Bernard Shaw

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

Alison Gopnik

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Luanne Rice

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

Saint Chrysostom

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial

John Milton

A smile that glowed / Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

David Johnson

I've got four horses in and it's just fingers crossed that they get there. Obviously Celestial Gold would be my key horse at this stage.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Giles Foden

In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Marianne Vos

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Jason Goulden

Most gold mines don't see this level of public opposition.

Kevin Garnett

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Source Unknown

Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

Shizuka Arakawa

I think I will realize that I have won gold in the next two or three days. Many times I've thought about quitting. I'm happy I have continued.

Neil Cavuto

If Edwards gained 60 pounds and lost all his hair, he'd look like Dick Cheney!

Tom Ford

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Brian Anderson

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

Dave Barry

A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

Bryce Harper

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Carnie Wilson

Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

Billy Bob Thornton

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Kendra Wilkinson

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Brenda Fassie

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

Clarice Lispector

For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Gary Murphy

We, as adults, try to shout at them about it and it doesn't always work,

Niall Horan

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Billy Casper

As long as you're not shouting and hollering.

Emily Hughes

A little over a week ago, I wasn't even supposed to be here. I went out there for warm-ups and they were shouting my name. That's the first time that ever happened.

Ruby Dee

I used to want to shout 'Help me!'

Steve Jones

I'm tired of Glen Matlock saying he was the songwriter for the Sex Pistols. I co-wrote as many songs... but I don't go shouting about it.