Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Philip Guedalla

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

Phyllis Schlafly

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

Pope John XXIII

Justice comes before charity.

Pope Francis

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

Pope Francis

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Pope Benedict XVI

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation of the Gospel bears witness to Christ and is lived out in service of our neighbour through justice for the poorest, education in isolated villages, medical care in remote areas, freedom from poverty, the reintegration of the marginalised, support for the development of peoples, the breaking down of ethnic divisions and respect for life in all its stages.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

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

J. G. Ballard

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Isabelle Huppert

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Jack Gould

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

Bill Condon

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

Newton Minow

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

Michael Klepper

When you're live on television ?you've got to be very concise, very brief, and very direct,

Jesse Ventura

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

Jean Baudrillard

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.