Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.

Alan Greenspan

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.

Alan Arkin

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

Al Sharpton

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

Al Kaline

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Akon

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Akira Kurosawa

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place.

Akio Morita

Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen.

Akshay Kumar

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Chris Colfer

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

Chris Abani

We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

Edward Gibbon

Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

Edmond Rostand

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

Ed Belfour

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

David Remnick

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

David Riesman

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

Diablo Cody

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Diablo Cody

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Denis Waitley

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

Bill Nighy

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Cass McCombs

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Alan Kay

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Charlie Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Bernard of Clairvaux

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.