Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Wade

They paired all of the Colonists up with an Indian and, at one point, my partner got hurt. So they matched me up with another Indian to work out some of the fight scenes, and he was huge.

Thomas Paine

the colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white or black.

S. Walker

We can't stop the Declaration from being signed, but we can put a spin on it. We can say George III is for a Declaration that espouses freedom because it shows his colonists have minds of their own.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Alan Watts

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Chogyam Trungpa

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Corey Brewer

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

Tom Pecora

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

Jerry Palm

The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.

Tom Izzo

We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now.

David Elliot

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

Billy Donovan

It's teams like George Mason that give so many people hope in their lives, just seeing what great things can be accomplished.

Max Minghella

It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Karen Russell

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was something so attractive about those voices.

Maria Sharapova

Do you remember what Richard III said about wearing the crown?

Michael Sands

We want our product to stick in the minds of consumers.

Nate Corddry

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.

Sandy Miller

As we get older our minds become more fuddled. (Having so many plans) doesn't help.

Bill Ryan

It seems like we had a mindset of ?we're the underdog, let's go for broke.' We shot without apprehension.

Adam Baker

It's on everybody's minds right now. It's all anybody's thinking about.

Henry Newbolt

The work of the world must still be done, and minds are many though truth be one.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

We all wanted to have a song to get our minds right to run down the field.

Sean Dockery

We just turned up the heat. We put it in our minds that we were going to stop them, and that's what we did.

Billy Knight

We will truly miss Jasons personality and his spirit, and he will be in the thoughts and minds of our team and organization forever,

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Sean Hayes

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

Jason Reitman

This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.

Dave Barry

I can snap your spine like a toothpick.

Frank Miller

The world, she do spin mad. These are wild times.

Kathy Duva

This isn't a 'Let's take him out for a spin and see how he is' fight.

Stephen Colbert

We don't want any filter, ... The correspondent is only going to put his spin on it.

Matthew McGrory

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Lorrie Moore

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

Glenn Beck

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,

Jimmy Kennedy

We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.

Jim Schaus

We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.

Jessica Raine

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

Rick Peckinpaugh

They don't stop cheering. It can get very loud.

Joe Torre

They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.

Chuck Wagner

It's time to put a stop to their (win) streak.

Frank Hargrove

It's not the speeding, it's the sudden stopping that's the thing.

Stan Domin

I told her to stop trying so hard, and to just relax.