Famous Quotes & Sayings

Illeana Douglas

It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.

Dax Shepard

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

Kevin Reilly

It's been a struggle to find that next evolution of comedy. Earl was our highest-testing show in 15 years, which was kind of a surprise. But we definitely need cutting-edge comedies like that.

Michael Cudlitz

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

Mariella Frostrup

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

Mike Birbiglia

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

Candice Bergen

Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.

Mark Ruffalo

Well, it's actually funny and romantic, unlike many romantic comedies these days,

George Hickenlooper

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Totie Fields

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Kit Harington

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

Dan Hawkins

I was always fascinated by toys, and I just never outgrew it,

Greg Nichols

He was just so fascinated by everything about golf he'd do whatever you wanted him to do.

Gary Hume

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Jen Kirkman

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

Nastassja Kinski

I'm fascinated by older people, but I need young people.

Peter Capaldi

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

Cynthia Kenyon

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Nina Hoss

As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Yasuo Fukuda

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Zig Ziglar

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Tom Renney

I wouldn't say real bad. But it is uncomfortable enough where it would be day-to-day. And whether he plays would be just that, a day-to-day situation. ... He's a little uncomfortable and there's pain.

Katori Hall

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Joe Vitt

He's a special guy, now we've got to see how he plays after a week's worth of preparation and somebody getting ready for him.

Hank Davidson

He shot 3-over on the back nine, and that was pretty good, too. The back is tough because it's long and it plays into the wind.

Scott Skiles

We took them down to the end. We had our opportunities. We just weren't able to make the big plays when they were necessary.

Rich Ingold

When he plays to his potential, we'll be all right.

Jerome Harrison

I think we were only getting three plays a quarter. I didn't realize it until the second quarter. I started getting cold, sweat drying off.

John McCallum

It's not every day that your sitting state senator takes on a run for Congress, and we need to see how that plays out.

Bert Brown

That really took the wind out of our sails. You just can't give up plays like that.

Steven Boylan

I know this is a big one, but I can't say if it is related to anything that is going on.

Kim Cattrall

I like movies I can relate to.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Damian Marley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Amiri Baraka

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.

Maya Beiser

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.