Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

Werner Herzog

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

Samantha Bond

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

Sam Claflin

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

Mike Leigh

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

Jonathan Sacks

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Kurt Russell

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

Martin Freeman

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

Judd Apatow

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Rose McIver

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

Virat Kohli

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Riccardo Muti

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Rob Bell

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Uma Thurman

I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.

Robin Wright

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge

Robert Sheckley

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Robert Preston

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

Richard Wiles

I think it's a very powerful tool for parents as well as kids. We know in our society right now that we have some real issues with obesity ... and maybe this will be the insight that will in turn make a difference.

Warren Buffett

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

Walter White

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Robert G. Allen

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Paul Hawken

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.