Famous Quotes & Sayings

Idris Elba

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

Idina Menzel

After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

Idina Menzel

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

Idina Menzel

I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

Will Chase

It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

Walead Beshty

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad sense, don't really enter into my thinking.

Wendy Kopp

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

Common

This is a broad thought, but loving yourself and having the support so that you can love yourself is the most important thing that young people in Chicago can get.

David Steinberg

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

Virginia Postrel

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Nancy Vinson

That was so important as far as water quality and habitat and public views. People come to South Carolina to enjoy these gorgeous marsh views.

Dee Davis

We have a lot of work to do. To play the way we did (last night), it's kinda depressing to know how much we wasted. If we'd played like this all year, we would have had a higher seed, and maybe we'd have played North Carolina in the finals. I take this year as a loss, as a failure. We gypped ourselves.

Jim Long

We've got people here from Florida; we got people from South Carolina -- so it's a combination.

Chip Rich

We're very proud to be here. It's so impressive, the response and the resources North Carolina has.

Tyrese Rice

It definitely was a road game. We're on the road right now, playing down here in North Carolina in ACC country.

John Hendricks

I thought it was a good event. I'm not displeased. I thought that we had a pretty decent crowd. Obviously it wasn't as large as South Carolina State. But hopefully the city of Columbia and the people of South Carolina will see that this is a very viable game, and they'll decide they will come out and support these young people. This is a very good game.

Hannah Storm

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

Ben Foster

We can say we'd like to play in Detroit, or do something like spend three days in North Carolina and be able to do that. Success means we don't work a day job and can live.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Elizabeth Warren

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

David Ulevitch

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

Mike Irwin

That would not be fair to Red Hook. But we have a good team.

Chris Lee

That was tough for me to get situated because I was back and forth (between positions) the whole season. Now, I'm fairly secure at defense.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

Nayvadius Cash

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

Bette Davis

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Arnold Rothstein

I prefer to make my living honestly.

Bill Vaughan

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Bertrand Russell

The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.

Ricky Jay

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

William Shakespeare

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Baz Luhrmann

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

Ismail Kadare

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the 'errors' of authors.

Vincent Bugliosi

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

Zubin Mehta

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Nayvadius Cash

My day one fans - my fans from my mix tape days - know my life now. They know where I've been. You don't want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they've known you.

Cecelia Ahern

Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?

Roman Jakobson

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Juergen Trittin

We've long known the waste would have to be taken back.

Rodney Moore

We've known about this idea for some time, but it has yet to be developed.

Carl Sagan

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

Julia Cole

Only when we have a long-term perspective can we say anything at all about long-term variability, especially decadal variability.

Steven Lima

One of the reasons we don't understand sleep is that we haven't taken this evolutionary perspective on it.

Eido Carney

We try to keep that perspective in mind.

J. C. Watts

I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.

Matthew Pinsent

I can't really get any perspective on it at the moment,

Nick Ingelbrecht

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

Larry Brown

From my perspective, it's a big step forward.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Guru Singh

Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Brian Butterfield

That was a tremendous play. Troy has been solid at third base.

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Nate Moore

We're a solid staff all the way around. It's just one of those days.

Mike Bender

We worked a lot on his tempo and staying solid at the top, not hinging too much,

Josh Pais

My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.

Jim Schmidt

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Dominique McElligott

I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Joe Potter

We've kind of snuck in there. But we keep improving, and we have throughout the season. As the year got longer, we got better.

Phil Harrison

It doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage at all. Throughout our history, we have never been the first to market.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Tara Strong

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

Bob Mayer

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.