Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Ratner

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Brandon Lee

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

Ben Parr

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Barbara Lee

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Bashar al-Assad

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Barbara Sher

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Pam Baker

Things like that will get the teenagers out.

Ayelet Waldman

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

Brian Aldiss

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Brendan Fehr

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Brad Falchuk

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Alanis Morissette

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Bobby Vinton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.

Bob Cox

About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.

Alison Sweeney

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Ruth Draper

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

Pavlos Flourentzos

The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used.

Marc Shmuger

I've never come close to seeing an artist working at this level.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Shane Filan

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.