Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Reitman

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

Jean de la Bruyere

Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

James Ellis

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

GG Allin

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Gerard Houllier

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

Regina Spektor

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Sanaa Lathan

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Ryan Phillippe

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

W. P. Kinsella

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Conrad Hall

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Daniel Woodrell

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Anthony Hopkins

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Anne Lamott

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

Anne Lamott

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

Annie Baker

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

Thomas More

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

Thomas S. Monson

May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Dustin Hoffman

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

Adolf Hitler

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

Adolf Hitler

Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

Adolf Hitler

In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.

Aden Young

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.