Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gay

A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate.

Brian Friedman

Your fox trot is the smoothest I've seen yet.

Scott Tepper

Astrakhan is one of the most important trends in the store for fall. It is a natural progression from all the fox and mink we've been seeing for years.

Paula Abdul

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Federico Estevez

Fox didn't meet all the expectations that were inordinately inflated by his team, by him, and by opinion makers.

Mike Black

My first role was a tree at the Fox Theatre in Aurora in the Wizard of Oz .

Jason Cooper

Terry Fox was a hero to me when I was growing up.

Jesse Ventura

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

Sam Brownback

I do think we're going to have to see more information ? not attorney-client privilege type information, but more information of the work product that she was involved with at the White House that was not of a legal nature but that's of a policy nature, ... Fox News Sunday.

Susan Powter

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

Ramez Naam

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons.

Lewis Black

We don't have seasons anymore. You know why? We lost the ozone layer. Well, put it on milk cartons - let's find it!

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Andrzej Wajda

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.

Syd Barrett

In the future, bands are going to have to offer more than a pop show. They are going to have to an offer a well presented theatre show

Victor Garber

You can only do so much theatre.

Victor Hugo

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Shaun Sipos

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

John Patrick Shanley

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

Max Irons

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre... it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

Jane Goodall

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

Anton Chekhov

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Bob Dylan

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Douglas Adams

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Donald Knuth

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...

Don Young

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?

Anthony Kiedis

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

Michael Grant

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

Gabe Newell

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future,

Jim Butcher

I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.

Deepak Chopra

To the wizard death is merely a belief.