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.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Dan Thompson

I am awake, I might as well be drinking

Bob Dole

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Billy Connolly

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Charles Bukowski

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Edward Abbey

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Edward Davis

We've had several people get engaged here on Valentine's Day. One time we put an engagement ring in the glass of wine so when she started drinking it she noticed the ring. I actually suggested that to the guy because that's what I did when I got engaged. One year we even had a wedding on Valentine's Day.

Kevin Collier

We're taking a system down that can do the whole project - all the way to drinking water if they need us to do that.

Craig Parker

Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.

Loren Loverde

Dell has a lot of momentum, and they were tough competitors.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Carole James

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Ronald Coleman

This was my decision. It's a tough day.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Jason Smith

We just need to keep doing everything we're already doing. Play tough with hard-nosed defense.

Donald Trump

Going through tough times is a wonderful thing, and everybody should try it. Once.

Alicia Keys

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.