Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Jon Rogers

There are well-documented structural impediments to moving quickly in this industry.

Barbara Mikulski

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

Augusten Burroughs

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Arthur Miller

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Tim Smith

People tend to pass judgment on teenagers too quickly.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Jeff Lyons

We had the judgment before they did the seizure.

Donald Trump

I have much better judgment than Hillary Clinton does. There's no question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has, you know?

Donald Trump

I have great judgment. I have good judgment. I know what's going on.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

Aldous Huxley

To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

Ambrose Bierce

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Michel de Montaigne

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Robert A. Heinlein

A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Friedrich Schlegel

Novels have a habit of concluding in the same way that the Lord's Prayer begins: with the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Dick Van Dyke

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

Magglio Ordonez

You have to get used to winning. Winning is a habit. Losing is a habit.

Douglas Adams

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Douglas Preston

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Duke of Wellington

Habit is ten times nature.