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.

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Ashley Hanhurst

We've almost been a team that likes to come back.

Becky Christofferson

We usually play full court almost every game. The second half has been ours the whole season. We play better in the second half for some reason.

Samir Haj

We struggled until almost the end. But it will show our kids that if you don't concentrate and play hard from the beginning anything can happen.

Jamie Mauthe

We struggled to put Sarah through college so that she could become a certified X-ray technician. But we are not big spenders and have almost no personal debt. It's all in the farm.

Mike Urich

We are a different ball team than we were almost two months ago. We feel a lot of what we do they may know what's coming, but as long as we execute like we have, I think we will be OK.

Paul Murphy

We are at the point now, for the first time in this peace process, where almost all of the parties are at the table,

Rob Stewart

There are continually mixed messages, and there is almost increasing confusion in the mind of the average Joe.

Jeff Lenard

We're in hyperdrive. These wholesale increases are going to be felt almost immediately.

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

John McGonegal

We are pleased to welcome American Telecom Services to the American Stock Exchange. An initial public offering is an important step for any company to take, and we are pleased American Telecom has opted for the specialized services we at the Amex offer to emerging companies.

Jim Baker

We've already had an independent company look into it, ... What happened to that report?

Prem Nair

We are a very responsible company and we have been working on this systematically. We have fully complied with the requirements of our remediation agreement.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

David Duchovny

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

Lorraine Bracco

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Michael Franti

I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less.

The Talmud

There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.

Sathya Baba

There is no living being without the spark of love; even a mad man loves something or somebody.

Axl Rose

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Carol Lewis

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?

Artie Lange

A big part of my living is my stand-up material on the road,

Nick Hill

It seems like he's got a new passion and is just thankful for being out there, like he's living each practice like it's his last.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Tom Stoppard

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Sophie McShera

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. Its exhilarating!