Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Jon Rogers

There are well-documented structural impediments to moving quickly in this industry.

Barbara Mikulski

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

Augusten Burroughs

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Arthur Miller

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jonathan Dimbleby

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

Zygi Wilf

Coach Childress embodies class, character and discipline and is a great family man. He is a winner.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Bob Mancini

The second most important thing for the first half of the season was the character and leadership in that locker room. They all get along.

Leonard Hamilton

The team kind of hung together. This is the kind of game that will test your character and your togetherness and your spirit.

Jennifer Steele

The tasks were kind of hard and they were related to the magazine. It was about being in the moment and on the spot your true character comes out. I think the objective was to find someone different than the typical role models.

Jay Thomas

The thing we wanted to do is increase our overall speed, and we definitely did that. We are excited about the character of this group, they are not only strong on the field, but in the classroom as well.

Steve Buscemi

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

Barbara Mertz

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Eckhart Tolle

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.