Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Miller

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

Ginnifer Goodwin

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

Majel Barrett

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

Coco Chanel

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

Meghan Ory

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Dirk Benedict

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Azzedine Alaia

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

Anna Held

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Sally Field

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Tina Fey

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

Sam Harris

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Sophie McShera

I'm really good at pretending.

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

Martin Freeman

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Joss Whedon

I've been doing Shakespeare readings with my friends for years.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

John Clare

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Richard Madden

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Esperanza Spalding

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.

Neville Marriner

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

Robert Bach

Americans have been on a multi-year spending spree.

Howard Silverblatt

They're starting to spend some of the money,

Shannon Bennett

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Tim Bell

Spend a little now, but you're going to get more for your buck.

Jose Canseco

Spend a Day with Canseco on the Hill.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.