Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Paisley

Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jane Jacobs

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

Martin Luther

Despair makes priests and friars.

Martin Luther

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Mason Cooley

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

Source Unknown

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Sorin Cerin

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

George Santayana

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

George Santayana

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

George R. R. Martin

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Sean Dockery

The team tried to tell him not to show it (in his) face. I think he did it for a second. But eventually, he calmed down.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.

Danny Sullivan

This will probably calm some of this thing down.

Javad Vaidi

We are here to find a compromise, which means we have to calm things down.

Donna Karan

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

John Milton

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

Mariano Rivera

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Lucretius

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

Laurie Cook

But that has calmed down at this point.