Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Albert Einstein

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

Play is the highest from of research.

Albert Einstein

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Albert Einstein

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Alexander Ovechkin

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa,

Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander Pope

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Jack Gould

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Jesse Ventura

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

Fred Rogers

I got into television because I hated it so,

George H. W. Bush

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.

Kevin Beary

He's not watching television, 'cause we've done some things so he can't watch television.

J. K. Rowling

You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done!

George Herbert

Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

Sanjay Dutt

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

Salman Rushdie

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

W. S. Gilbert

For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to everyone.

Walt Disney

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

Wilma Mankiller

Look forward. Turn what has been done into a better path.

Yoweri Museveni

When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there.