Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Blessed

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

Eckhart Tolle

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Thoko Didiza

There should not be any drama and there is no drama.

Amy Pascal

Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.

Alison Pill

One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

Alex O'Loughlin

I was sort of trained in drama. I went to theater school. I started on the stage. Comedy is absolutely an essential part of what we do as actors. But I think in the grand scheme of things, comedy was born from tragedy. First there was tragedy and then there were the comedies.

Ali MacGraw

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

Ali MacGraw

I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.

Debi Mazar

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

For man is man and master of his fate.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Anthony de Mello

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

D. H. Lawrence

Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. . . . The creative spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.

David Attenborough

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.

Curtis Jackson

He who fears fate lives like a coward

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

Anne Fadiman

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Barbara Jordan

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Arthur Miller

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

Arthur Miller

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.