Famous Quotes & Sayings

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby.

G. H. Hardy

The people who come to us are desperate. It's as if they're in a burning building. Their lives are at stake.... We didn't feel that we could morally back out and put these people back in the fire and let them die.

Willie Smith

It feels good; I'm just real proud of myself. I felt like I had a great senior year to put me into this position.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Jesse Ventura

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

Ice Cube

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

Scott Olsen

He ran, like, 12 poles and he wasn't even fazed. He might have run more than 14. I ran my 14 and got out.

John Whittier

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''

Isaac Marion

You might say that death has relaxed me.

Isaac Asimov

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Iris Apfel

You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.

Deion Sanders

If I don't like what I see, I may just have to go down there and play. You never know when I might put on a uniform.

John McArdle

If he doesn't run, I might just give him a trial and then go into the Caulfield Guineas.

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Jodi Picoult

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Plutarch

Words will build no walls.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

Pico Iyer

I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.

Pico Iyer

Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life.

Phillips Brooks

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

Philip Yancey

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.