Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bella Thorne

I don't really hashtag things. Unless I'm talking to somebody and I'm being funny and I say something mean but then I'm like, Hashtag...something that's funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Aldous Huxley

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Donna Douglas

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

Donald Davis

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Donald E. Westlake

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

Don DeLillo

I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself.

Don DeLillo

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot...

Don DeLillo

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Ron Paul

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

Ron Paul

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections.

Sam Mendes

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

Ruth Wilson

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

Sullivan Stapleton

I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

Story Musgrave

I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

Stone Gossard

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

Stone Gossard

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

Kim Ens

This isn't something where we want to scare people at all.

Donna Jones

This is the dirtiest, scariest thing I've ever seen. When it comes to politics in this city, people don't play fair.

Ken Davis

This is Philadelphia, people are used to (politicians) getting indicted,

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

This is part of the risk of running, that people will say things about you.

Paul Costello

The whole idea that started this program was to get people out of harm's way.

Gary Caille

The whole idea is that the vehicle doesn't need to survive an attack, but the people do.

Hilary Clinton

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no one else can do. And I am profoundly grateful,

Curtis Hanson

This girl, I can't tell you how much ... well, just how proud I am of her. She is going to surprise so many people with this.

Harvey Houtkin

That's where all the people who are day trading, or supposedly day trading, are getting raped or killed,