Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Ratner

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Brandon Lee

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

Ben Parr

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Barbara Lee

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Bashar al-Assad

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Barbara Sher

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Rodney Selph

Actually, I thought I was going to throw up. We got lucky, but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Taylor Snell

Now I know how all those people felt, being out of their homes. We were lucky to have somewhere to go.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Julie White

Ten years ago a superintendent search would have 40 applicants. Now you are lucky to get five.

Richard Thompson

It was upsetting at first, but then you realize there's not much you can do about it. We were very lucky no one was hurt. You can always replace buildings, but not someone's life.

Brad Dourif

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Robert Griffin

We have a 12-month construction schedule. With any luck, we'll be done sooner.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

Chuck Close

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.