Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Christina Baker Kline

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

John Salazar

We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social Security for the next 70 years and beyond -- that means stopping privatization and dropping partisan demands for private accounts,

Bill Cowher

We have traveled a hard road, and grew as a football team, and individually. This is a very grounded and resilient group of guys. We've never taken anything for granted and looked beyond the next game. We have kind of had tunnel vision throughout the process.

Raul Julia

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Michael Arrington

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Patanjali

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Randy Bly

We'll probably continue to see rising gas prices just beyond the Labor Day holiday.

Tim Gleason

To make it to back-to-back finals, I'm beyond proud. It's a big accomplishment what we've done.

Larry DiRita

to look up and look beyond the treetops.

Robin S. Sharma

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

Peter Schoomaker

We are now into '07-'09 in our planning,

Danny Jordan

We really want ... to use this as a starting point for doing some long-term planning.

Edward Zander

We are planning some more wild products in 2006.

Patrick Leahy

We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,

Craig Curry

We are planning a high-end residential development on this property.

Johan Bruyneel

He's planning on being here. Just sitting with me in the car, he helps.

Sue Wilson

I did some planning over the summer, ... and I managed to do some relaxing.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Cecelia Ahern

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

Bill Bryson

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Joey Giordano

We're waiting for investigators to speak with her to find out what else has happened.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

William Shakespeare

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest ...

Mario Pescante

I will speak with (Rogge) about doping, ... We are optimistic.

Antoine Hood

I think I can speak for everyone on this team when I say he had our trust from Day 1.

Neil Simon

Yo quito se dablo enchalada porquesa in quinto minuto! But I don't speak spanish.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.