Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Miloon Kothari

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

Massoud Barzani

We have the names of the officials who gave the orders and those who executed them. Everything is contained in these documents,

Rick Rainey

Most of it was contained in our containment system, but some entered into the channel.

Peter Davis

It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.

Dick Bennett

We have not contained point guards at all.

Frank Robinson

We haven't completely shut him down, ... But we contained him.

Tim Thompson

When it is just Brant Quick back in the backfield, I think we could have contained him, ... but trying to contain everything they have... they have a lot of weapons.

Nick Greenwell

We finally stepped it up in overtime and contained them pretty well.

Alan Greenspan

Thus our baseline outlook for the U.S. economy is one of sustained economic growth and contained inflation pressures. In our view, realizing this outcome will require the Federal Reserve to continue to remove monetary accommodation.

Colin Angle

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

Paul Bello

We have people eating things they never heard of before.

John Mulaney

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

Tom Robbins

Whining's unattractive, even when your whine sounds like Kenneth Branagh eating frozen strawberries with a silver fork.

Craig Smith

I think more of us are interested in eating better.

Richard Gough

I think the stretching before training and the match, has helped me. As well as being sensible with my eating and drinking.

Gretchen Rubin

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

David Gay

We have not stopped eating fish in my family.

Rich Harden

I was throwing up all day Tuesday and Wednesday. I've been eating normally the past three days. Now I can finally get into my regular routine of long toss, side work and lifting.

Melaney Arnold

The vaccine is only about 95 percent effective. Five percent of the population is not going to be effected by it.

Sarah Lee

I just missed a lot of fairways. So I will focus more on my tee shots Sunday. The wind effected me a lot today.

Larry Young

It really hadn't effected the workshops as a whole as drastically as we had first anticipated.

J. D. Salinger

The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

John Lennon

I wanna hold your gland.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charles Scott Sherrington

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Amy Heckerling

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Alan Furst

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Kimberly Schneider

We are taking samples to our testing facilities. Subsequent tests have indicated it's not a nerve agent.

Charles Bukowski

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.

Najib Razak

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Trevor Rabin

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.