Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.

Russell Banks

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Woody Allen

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

William Whewell

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

William Shirley

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William Morris Hunt

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

William J. Clinton

It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

William J. Clinton

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Wanda Sykes

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

Leon Panetta

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Elia Kazan

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Marcus Aurelius

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Thomas Aquinas

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

John Burroughs

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

James M. Barrie

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

M. John Harrison

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

Zoe Saldana

I never really watched the TV series.

Elia Kazan

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

Elizabeth Berkley

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

Bill Gates

You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Courteney Cox

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Anderson Cooper

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.