Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lana Wachowski

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

Lana Wachowski

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

Ted Demme

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

Stan Brakhage

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

Joel Coen

Billy Bob and Fran are very well known actors, but aren't the kind of movie stars in the sense that George Clooney and Brad Pitt are.

Philip Kaufman

I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.

Philip Kaufman

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

Philip Kaufman

This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.

Philip Kaufman

That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.

Jaime Punishill

Early versions of the infrastructure is either in place or being put in place. It's not inconceivable that in three to five years we'll be able to assemble all our financial data on one site.

Ratomir Dujkovic

This was the best squad we could assemble for this tournament. We have some time to prepare before the World Cup.

Mike Dwight

We certainly don't own the land. Our land acquisition folks are constantly at work trying to assemble the parcels, but it hasn't happened yet. I hate the fact that somebody's out there burning stuff, period, regardless of whose structures are burning, or why.

Ron Wilson

I am very excited about the opportunity to defend the United States' title during a tournament as prestigious as the World Cup of Hockey, which features the best players our sport has to offer. I look forward to working with USA Hockey to assemble another potential championship team.

Michael Griffin

If we launch without setback, 16 (shuttle) flights are required to assemble the ISS and we'll finish sometime early in fiscal 2010, so we have, we believe, substantial schedule margin, to complete our job.

Ben Holmes

Kraft is unbelievable. There isn't a single company that has managed to assemble a portfolio of brand names like Kraft.

Bret Bielema

I would like to assemble a group of coaches that carry two common traits: great passion and great integrity. Kerry has great passion for the game, for recruiting, for his players and for people overall.

Jacques Rogge

I declare the Games of the 28th Olympiad closed and, in accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now at Beijing to celebrate with us there the Games of the 29th Olympiad.

Kevin Tynan

If you look at the total compensation package, it's close to $125,000 to $130,000 per year. If you have UAW workers making $130,000 to assemble oil filters, it's very difficult to turn a profit.

Kim Gordon

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

Ian Taylor

We're at a critical stage for investment and return in UK space,

John Herrmann

The other critical thing is that the 25-basis-point rate hike in January that's been priced in is being called into question.

Ken Hitchcock

We were overwhelmed in the first ten minutes, that's my responsibility. We made critical errors on the first, second, and third goals. They fed off the energy and that lies on me.

Mike Schroepfer

Luckily we do not have any known use of this exploit, but it is fairly critical if there were to be (an attack), so this is a recommended download.

Manmohan Singh

So far we have reports of 50 dead and 15 critically injured.

Jill Janssen

But the critical thing is to walk in the door, spend some time in the facility, talk to the residents, talk to the staff, eat a meal and just look around.

Hoshiyar Zebari

Because of the sensitivity of the timing and the critical stage we are going through, it is very important for this force to remain committed, ... Any premature withdrawal will send the wrong message.

John Adams

Fortunately I had a good partner. That was the only thing that saved me. This one taught me. My partner saved my life. From now on, I'll definitely be a lot more critical of who I ski with.

Clint Hurdle

Some times the male ego gets in the way of a lot of things.

Dan Barker

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Barry Gibb

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

Eckhart Tolle

Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

Dan Brown

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Bill Cowher

We have a very healthy organization. It starts at the top. There's no ego involved. We try to get things done as a team.

Tariq Ramadan

We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

Sylvester Stallone

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Shane Murphy

I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

William Henderson

This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that.

Chris Shays

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

Brett Ratner

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jane Fonda

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

Cedric Benson

As a competitor, you want to be out there, making something happen, especially when the team is losing. But my time will come.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Mark Ehlen

Anything that I've said to the team hasn't been effective. I've been mad, I've stomped, I've screamed, I've been encouraging and positive, and nothing matters.

Tubby Smith

Teams like this give us a lot of problems.

Jami Finan

It was a long time. Our team could not have wanted it more than anything in the world.

Kenny Rogers

They are a better team than us right now. Those are the facts.

George C. Williams

This is one of the best, if not the best, teams we've had here in a long time,

Frank Permuy

You really can't compare. Every year is different, every team is different.

Clive Anderson

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.

Aesop

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Ali Khamenei

Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.

Amelie Nothomb

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Andy Whitfield

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Thomas Haden Church

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.

Sophie Swetchine

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Neil Kinnock

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

John Stott

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.