Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Laurie Pirtle

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Benoit Mandelbrot

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

Aron Ralston

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

Arsene Wenger

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Anton Seidl

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

Chris McGinnis

Yeah, it's good. No one should have a problem with it unless you're hiding something.

Sammy Sosa

People were talking (stuff), knowing nothing. They don't know I feel. Why am I going to be hiding from Chicago? For what? That I'm scared? Never.

Tom Bailey

I have a problem with the idea of putting something in the paper that makes us a part of hiding something from the parents.

Dan Rohn

He looked for me for two hours. I was hiding under desks, in the shower, the bathroom. He couldn't find me.

Lara Flynn Boyle

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

Abraham Torres

I don't know what they are hiding. Maybe they are not hiding anything, but the way they are going about this makes it look like they are.

David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

Brit Marling

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

Peter Banko

The patient rested well last night and was joking with staff this morning.

Ray Liotta

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

Lamar Butler

I think I was joking when I said that. For it to come true, it shows you never to stop dreaming, no matter how old you are. This shows you anything can happen.

Lamar Butler

I think I was joking when I said that.

Sam Endicott

We were joking that they're perforated. They come out of a dispenser.

Vernell Crittendon

He was laughing and joking with loved ones over the telephone.

Melvin Mora

He looked like he was 22. I'm telling you, he wasn't joking around.

Billy Godwin

I was joking with (Gary Overton) a while ago that maybe we'll just skip Sunday and just play on Monday.

Joe Mauer

She was with her mom, and they were joking around.

Will Rothhaar

I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people.

Leon Bear

We're all related in one way or the other.

Bobby Vinton

I wrote 'Mr. Lonely'. I wrote that song while I was in the army. Still today I think it relates to a lot of G.I.s. It'll be around for a long time.

Jonathan Brandis

I think it's all about how much you love, understand and can relate to the material you are given.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Carrie Fisher

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.

Bill Vaughan

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Bill Bryson

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

William Shakespeare

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Dave Barry

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

Dave Barry

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

Bryan Singer

Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Boreanaz

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Nicole Holofcener

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Peter O'Toole

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Paul Hogan

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Richard Rossi

I was very ambitious, and I wrote a script that was 180 pages,

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Peter Riegert

You realize Shakespeare wasn't stuck for an idea when he said, 'All the world's a stage.'

Freddie Roach

I thought it was something I could go to the sideline and shake it off.

Tim Walton

Just trying to shake some of the cobwebs off.

Bryan McClendon

I didn't want to think the worst. I was thinking 'Get up. Get up! Shake it off." ()

Koy Detmer

We're going to take the reps the way they want us to and see how it shakes out.

Kenneth Branagh

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

Zack Snyder

We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

Ashley Tisdale

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Bill Budge

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Bill Burr

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

Kelly Scott

We have to worry about the stuff in the refrigerator.

Christopher Sullivan

We've got stuff we've got to do now,

Albert Jr

When that kind of stuff happens, especially when you've never had anything, you don't really even know what it is.

Marisa Coughlan

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Colleen Murphy

I think it's going to be great. Unless there's a blizzard.

Luke Waddington

I think it's discounted, unless they do something and do something decisive.

Hal Vogel

He wasn't going to give it up willingly. He didn't want to give it up unless he had to.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

J. K. Rowling

Wow, we're identical!

J. K. Rowling

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

J. K. Rowling

Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you..." "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" said Harry sarcastically.

Ken Kesey

When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow.

Oprah Winfrey

Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

Jim Gaffigan

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

Jim Gaffigan

I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up.. .it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

Larry Gerwig

It's going to be tremendous. It's our 26th year and we're going to wow them again.

Cole Porter

Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now, Brush up your Shakespeare And the women you will wow.