Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Nicholas Jarecki

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Gavin Hood

We grew up watching American films and I hope that Americans will watch our stories.

Irwin Redlener

We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not going to be ready.

David Grant

We started five minutes after (Kline) lost. It's something you reel in right then. You start helping him refocus. You don't talk too much about the match he just lost but about what we're going to do in the future. You have to be there to help him.

Felipe Alou

We spent five months losing series. That's what has us five games back - not the loss tonight.

Lukas Rosol

I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.

Lewis Hallam

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Erick Dampier

We're not going to make excuses. You put five players on the court, regardless of who's hurt. Obviously, we have enough talent to win.

David Lawson

We have scheduled this every year for about five years. It is a routine thing now.

John Potter

We have music tonight but there are four or five people here. I don't know how much longer we can do this.

Natalie Massenet

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Chandler Parsons

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process,

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Floyd Reese

This does not end the process with Jevon. We would still like to have him as part of this team, just not under the 'franchise tag' parameters.

George Miller

This bill, and the process by which it passed, is a disgrace.

Catherine Fisher

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Billy Burke

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Kevin Estes

She's quicker even though she's not as big as Gabby (Wade) or Sophie (Russell).

Gary Sheffield

That would be devastating to me. I should be able to come back quicker than if it was a hamstring. I'm going to get the anti-inflammatories and see how I feel tomorrow.

Bobby Lewis

That way you get them in quicker and out quicker.

Steve Wright

Our supplies are drying up quicker than expected.

Thomas Collins

still have a (quick reaction force) mission, but we can react quicker from the ships.

Scott Taylor

This is much better suited for him. He's become quicker and a lot more technically sound.

Darrell Royal

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

Brittany Snow

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Shawn Wayans

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

Rob Riggle

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

Michael London

We've always, always, always wanted to shoot in Pittsburgh.

Rich Lyons

When we don't shoot well, and don't get back on defense, we have problems. We hurried some shots.

Calamity Jane

I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.

Steve Botkin

They got out on the perimeter and spread us out pretty well. We just didn't shoot very well offensively.

Kevin Stallings

They shoot it more than us, and they shoot it better.

Bob Martin

They didn't shoot at us, and we didn't shoot at them.

Allen Iverson

You don't want somebody shooting that had been making a lot of shots.

Jay Wright

I told him, 'We're going to go down with you shooting the ball. That's who we are.

Ernie Els

At least I know you don't have to shoot 65 to try to win.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Callie Khouri

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.

Charlotte Rae

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

Charley Pride

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

Oprah Winfrey

It's just a television show. But, wouldn't this be cool?

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Denis Norden

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Brandon Schnittker

We're not going to win the Big Ten championship the way we're playing.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Charles Coody

They told me in the tent there I'd probably get Most Improved.

Hugh Johnson

They tend to be like sheep. They are followers. It's called piling on in football, and I think it's the equivalent. It's unprecedented.

John MacArthur

There was a tense atmosphere, ... When the end came, it was very abrupt.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Bill Moyers

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Carl Bernstein

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Charlaine Harris

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

Charles Schumer

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Charles Francis Richter

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.