Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Bigelow

Art does imitate life, and the Rodney King beating was a real event. It's a part of all our consciousness, and there's no value in ignoring it.

Taylor Hackford

Our society gives power to people who are successful. All of a sudden, if you've created something unique and interesting, you're set apart.

Richard Donner

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

Omar Khayyam

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

John Huston

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Julie Taymor

After I had received the Watson Fellowship and had been two years in Indonesia on this traveling fellowship, I stayed to start my own theater company.

Edward Dmytryk

Subconsciously suggest to the viewer that he is seeing a fragment of continuing life, not a staged scene with a visible framework.

Sam Wood

So the ultimate goal is to incorporate the new imagery coming from these crazed artists into the cohesive, core world of Third Edition.

Godfrey Reggio

So the location for this film is the images themselves - what is traditionally called stock and archival images. Then we animated those images.

Lyne Lortie

People are very upset. Many made holiday plans and have had to cancel them, or they are here and not getting their rooms cleaned. We only have 200 managers working to keep things going.

Andy Borowitz

After Sept. 11, I didn't write a piece for a couple of days because I thought people wouldn't want me to be funny. This time, it was so obvious what could be written, and I'll continue to write it. I can usually gauge reader response from the number of people who cancel on my e-mail list, and there's been no major withdrawal.

Tomas Vokoun

It was the right decision to cancel our other game, especially being his friend from our national team. You put life in front of everything because he was in immediate danger and he could've lost his life.

Nika Fleiss

The visibility is OK, but on the jump it was so windy and that's why I fell. It was a lot of wind. It pushed me back and lifted up my skis. I had no control over what was happening. It was really dangerous. It's the right decision to cancel the race.

Kris Kristofferson

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

Joe Farren

Early-termination fees equal lower monthly wireless rates. The suggestion that we should have a model whereby people can cancel and walk away with a free phone is just untenable.

Phil Reeker

Each embassy, as you know, conducts its own security assessment, and an embassy like Amman may decide to hold or limit or cancel its July Fourth events. And so that, in fact, it is the case.

David Russell

I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.

Patricia Houston

Community ed is driven by the needs of the community, ... If I put a class out there and the community doesn't show interest in it, then I have to cancel that class.

Dana Reeve

And then he said, 'I think I can make that happen on my own,' and he did. He literally commanded his finger to move, and it did.

Ed Kowalczyk

I used to shoot the middle finger at everyone and tell them I'm a punk rocker from York, Pennsylvania,

Bill Connors

You pretty much just waltzed right to the front, you put your finger down or they scanned your iris and within a millisecond your own picture comes up and identifies you and you go through.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Julie Sanders

Everything is right here at your finger tips.

Pam Saylor

To see those fingers just going, as a parent, you know ... he accomplished that on his own. When he made up his mind, trying to find his place (in the world), he wouldn't give up.

Sarah Brady

every rogue with an itchy trigger finger in Florida.

Richard Thompson

Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

Larry Coker

I don't think we have slipped talent-wise. I think we're talented enough to play with anybody. But I do sense our guys are not happy, not satisfied, and they shouldn't be, with last season. There really was some embarrassment there for all of us. No doubt, there is a sense of urgency. We need to go out with excitement, with hunger, every week. We had that at times last season, but not all the time. I guess you could point the finger at me, but we did not play with consistency.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Henk Bekedam

Roughly half of the new infections are sexually transmitted. The other 48 percent comes from intravenous drug users, and the remaining 2 percent are vertical transmissions from mother to child.

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Jeremy Duxbury

A sponsorship is on line and we will not let it down.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

Dawn Olivieri

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Paul Taibi

People say we are a one-line team because that one line is so dominant. We have some high-profile players, but we have more than just those people. It's a total team effort.

Carolyn Wright

People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are not alone.

Barry Trotz

The moons didn't line up that way ... That's neither here nor there.

Steve Johnson

Defensively, (Penn) took us out of our game. They didn't give us anything free, and when you go to the line only (three) times and them 17, that's a difference, too. But it was their defense. They just took us out of our rhythm.

Mike Tannenbaum

Anthony is an experienced veteran who provides our offensive line with flexibility and depth.

Sam Nunn

a production line of nuclear weapons ... will not be permitted.

Anthony Zinni

I think, clearly, he is trying to lure us into a possible shoot-down situation, and we are taking every measure to prevent that.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Rob Johnson

If something does happen, there are some restraint moves they are taught.

Steve Evans

If this moves forward, you'll see a reigniting of the water wars like you wouldn't believe.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Jeremy Friesen

I think there's more (potential) for moves with the U.S. dollar.

Lisa Dey

When something like that happens, you've got to make the right moves and do the right things, and we did.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

Josh Sims

Officially I'm moving in with two of my friends from Fiske. We're pretty much going with an open lottery.

Patrick Chorpenning

Once we get this one up and moving we may look at other places.

Jim Johnson

The staff has been very supportive of moving that program forward. We?re still wanting to get better.

John Jones

Some stores where's we're next door, we may find ourselves moving into their stores or vice versa.

Fran Townsend

Now is not the time to really look at moving organizational boxes. Can we do better? Absolutely. Will we do better? Absolutely.

Frances Townsend

Now is not the time to really look at moving organizational boxes.

Ginny Copenhefer

I've spent a lot of blood, sweat and tears working on this issue, and suddenly we're moving backwards.

Christine Quinn

Things are much better organized than they ever were, ... They are using their resources more effectively and actually moving toward being no kill.

Jonathan Toews

Things are going well, things are clicking. Sometimes, you're playing well, you're moving the puck around, getting chances, and it doesn't go in for you. But ... the puck is going in.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Nelson Oduber

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act, ... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Karl Barth

Faith is never identical with piety.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Edward Fitzgerald

And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass.

William Blake

Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost.

Dolly Parton

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Pat Paulsen

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Juvenal

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Daniel Handler

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Elie Wiesel

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

Clive Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid. That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aesop

Much outcry, little outcome.

Aeschylus

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Suki Waterhouse

I do try to wash my face before I go to bed now, which I never really used to do. Sometimes, if it's really dire, I won't, but most times I get around to it, even if it's just with water.

Rain Bojangles

You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Deon Santisteven

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Baltasar Gracian

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Dylan Moran

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Aristotle

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Richard Wright

There's one word for it -- carnage. It's horrible.

Geraldo Rivera

What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero?

Rae Tyson

We just thought we should get the word out there in the meantime.

Plato

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.