Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Dylan Thomas

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Dalai Lama

To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it.

Anne Bradstreet

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

D. H. Lawrence

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

Conrad Aiken

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Conrad Aiken

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

Conor Oberst

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

Clarence Darrow

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Robert Morse

You're shut out. How would someone get in and help you?, ... It's all gated in. Once you get in deep here, I think it's too dangerous.

David Bell

We are digging out from a deep pit,

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like now. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Clint Eastwood

I was a fan of Hilary's from 'Boys Don't Cry' and I saw her in 'Insomnia,' where she was good, but she didn't have a very deep part.

Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

William Empson

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can'tTell or remember even what they were.

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money. - Deep Thoughts ( Saturday Night Live)

Serge Payer

When you're playing from behind, you have to want it that much more. Dig deep and hopefully get the bounces going our way.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Peter Hermann

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Barry Gibb

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

Barry Gibb

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

Barry Gibb

We had to leave Australia to become international stars.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Lewis Thompson Preston

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

Leigh Steinberg

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

Puff Daddy

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

Lester Bangs

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Paracelsus

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Johan Cruijff

YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.

Johan Huizinga

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Joan Robinson

Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact that individuals want to buy commodities shows that they have utility.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.