Famous Quotes & Sayings

Van Wyck Brooks

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

William Cowper

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Orlando Gibbons

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Epictetus

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Epictetus

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

Ramakrishna

Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.

Rainn Wilson

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

Joan Chen

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Roxburgh

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Richard Kind

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Wentworth Miller

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Stieg Larsson

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Al Embry

He is doing well, he's just stressed out a little bit. But praise God, he got out of the thing.

William Wycherley

With faint praises one another damn.

Robert Wilson Lynd

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Samuel Johnson

Applause abates diligence.

Samuel Johnson

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Voltaire

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Winston Churchill

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.