Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

Robin Hobb

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Steve Truglia

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.

Latin Proverb

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

John Cusack

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

Julie Walters

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Ozwald Boateng

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

Gayle Forman

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

Richard Avedon

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Virginie LeDoyen

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress.

Khandi Alexander

I'm not a method actress.

Naomie Harris

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

Loni Anderson

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

Emily Blunt

Cate's absolutely spellbinding. She was like that just eating a sandwich. I knew at the time I was privileged, but since she's become God's gift to actresses I realise exactly how lucky I was.

Keira Knightley

In LA, I'm twice the size- height and everything else- of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

Kate Flannery

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

Kate Flannery

I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.