Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Pope Benedict XVI

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.

Kevin Spacey

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

Peter Capaldi

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

Sean Penn

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

Devon Sawa

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Antonin Artaud

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

Catherine Deneuve

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Ai Weiwei

All movies in China are censored. Out of 600 movies produced in China, only 60 are allowed to show in theatres.

Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Mark Shapiro

There is a feeling of compassion for what Bob went through. Nobody wants to feel like they are not the number one choice. But it's not because we didn't like Bob. It was because we had the chance to get a multiple year guy. Bob was always an alternative for us, and one we feel good about.

Dwayne Hickman

I was working on the Bob Cummings Show and my manager, Ted Wick, call 20th Century Fox, and suggested me for the role of Dobie.

Carlton Forrester

I don't have Bob Torricelli's experience. I haven't had my office raided by the F.B.I. I don't have the Senate ethics committee plowing through a file from the U.S. attorney's office.

Robert Herron

I don't feel this murder will be solved until Bob Herron is out of office. I don't look for any closure before then.

Gordon Gee

I'd already seen the kind of discipline and quality of effort that was being put into our program. I just felt very strongly that Bobby did not need to be looking to the rear view mirror as to whether the university administration was supporting him. He needed to look through the front window,

Shirley Eaton

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

Gerald Levin

I am deeply saddened by Bob and Terry's decision to leave Time Warner, ... The partnership between Bob and Terry has lasted over 20 years and has been more productive than any other in our industry.

Merle Haggard

He has this crazy style, and he has this mystique about him. He's still that way. You know, nobody knows Bob Dylan. They think they do, but I don't think they do. He's very close to his chest with his own cards. I think he'll remain that way.

Rick Riordan

I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Titan hefted his spear and they continued marching into the gloom.