Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

Alan Rickman

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Al Sharpton

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Al Pacino

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

Al Pacino

Either I act or I die.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Al Pacino

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Cindy Cohn

We want them to pledge not to take action against the paper and all future papers as well, ... It's not appropriate for scientists to have to ask the industry for permission to present research.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

David Hockney

Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

Benicio Del Toro

I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Benicio Del Toro

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

Barnett Newman

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

August Wilson

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Audre Lorde

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Alan Watts

Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.

Alan Watts

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

Alan Greenspan

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

Alan Greenspan

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

Alan Beck

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

Alan Blinder

In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

Chris Chocola

Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.

Chris Colfer

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Ken Miller

The one thing you will find between all of the employees, particularly the linemen, is that they are willing to go out and help when there is a need like this,

Richard Roberts

The other thing is, when you see somebody smoking and you're trying to quit, you get that urge again. It doesn't help people quit,

Kevin Hall

The positive thing about it is I can use my story to inspire other people, to help them see that they can do what they want to help them pursue their dreams. If I can help one person that would make me happy.

Anne Ward

We are providing a lot of information and online resources to help people who have memory concerns.

Sarah Clapper

We started rushing things on the offensive end and that only helped them get into their transition game.

Andres Perez

We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.

Cheryl James

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

Beth Moore

Authentic faith cannot help but act.

Bill Gates

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Whit Ayres

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

Sun Yuxi

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

Dan Richardson

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Bill Hall

As a historical society, we knew we had to preserve history, but now we have to pursue it, too.

Alan Rickman

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

Akshay Kumar

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

Charlize Theron

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

Chaim Potok

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Bob Marley

Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob.

Nell Newman

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

Edwin Louis Cole

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

Bill Gates

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Montae Reagor

We're just a hungry team. We're trying to prove people wrong. We want to show people we're just not a one-sided team.

Mario Cuomo

Lincoln isn't a man with ingrown toenails, he's an idea.

Susan Eisenhower

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.

Joe Birkett

I don't know. She's at another Lincoln Day probably, another Lincoln Day dinner.

Richard Norton Smith

Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

David Fish

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Ricki Lake

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Sun Ra

It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

Dennis Prager

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

Glen Loyd

You may keep it without any obligation whatsoever.

Bob DuPuy

We will be prepared to select ownership as soon as the lease obligation is done.

Susan Gray

We feel we have an obligation to not only uphold school policy, but also the law,

John Cornyn

You have no obligation to tell us how you will rule. Don't take the bait.

S. J. Perelman

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

H. Rap Brown

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Richard Harris

I think they have an obligation to be part of the solution.

Gerard Warren

He takes everything personally. You feel the obligation when you work with him.

Kendall Simmons

It's one of those things where I want to spread the word, let them know that you can be in the same position I'm in. You're going to have hurdles, but if you work hard, you can overcome them.

Lindy Ruff

That part has got to better. They've had some tough times. We've been able to overcome some of those times. Right now, we haven't been able to, but we got to be able to support them better at times like this too. That's it for me, thanks.

Ken Sparks

And then professionally, at 6-foot, he wasn't supposed to be big enough to play in the NFL. But he's always worked to overcome his problems.

Noam Chomsky

Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!

Champ Bailey

I've never had a year like this, ... This is the first time I've had to overcome this many at one time.

Jon Heder

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.

Richard Covey

At this point, we don't see anything that is such a poke-out for the program that they can't overcome it in that time frame.

Carlos Parreira

We should have played better, especially in the first half, but we were able to overcome our difficulties.

Juergen Klinsmann

This team is strong enough to overcome such setbacks. It's stable enough to put it behind. With positive thinking, there will be no problems. We have to look ahead.

Wiz Khalifa

I aint trippen never slicking or slacking on my pimping

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Tommy Lee Jones

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

Niranjan Shah

We are struggling to give three suitable venues to the ICC for the tournament.

Gerard Houllier

We are struggling to get tickets, even for the technical study group.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Steve Holloway

We've been struggling all year, but this win was really amazing.

Scott Skiles

Well, the team he went to is struggling mightily, I would say.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.

National League

It's not over until it's over, until they put an 'X' by our name.