Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Thomas Fuller

With foxes we must play the fox.

Douglas Adams

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Doris Lessing

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Don Tapscott

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

Donal Logue

I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.

Dale Carnegie

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Persis Khambatta

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

Sheryl Sandberg

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Taylor Swift

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Taraji P. Henson

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Kyra Sedgwick

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

Peter Fonda

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

Paz Vega

I want to have roles in English.

Phylicia Rashad

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

Liza Minnelli

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Jean Houston

In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of humanity begins. It is the time where we partner Creation in the creation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, the regenesis of society and in the assuming of a new type of culture; the culture of Kindness. Herein, we live daily life reconnected and recharged by the Source, so as to become liberated and engaged in the world and in our tasks.

Jason Patric

I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Henry David Thoreau

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

Gary Cook

I'd sign that petition. That kind of thing is important.

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Richard O'Brien

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.