Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Rani Mukerji

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

Ryan Gosling

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

Robert Rodriguez

You'll click a button and get to hear the Austin audience reacting to the film for the first time. You'll hear what took them by surprise, made them gasp. It's gonna be really cool.

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Wendy Liebmann

Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are a really big deal.

Andrew Heyward

In today's environment, the audience expects to be more directly connected to news providers than it did historically and I think that's a good thing, ... We all felt strongly that letting people know that we are willing to engage in a healthy dialogue about what we do we think will enhance our reputation and give us a competitive advantage.

Corey Reynolds

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Ray Waddell

The Stones have written and rewritten the book on touring.

George Smith

I self-published the first edition, hardcover, in June 2003. The book is now in its third printing.

Philip Chien

The whole object of the book is to take the two-dimensional bios and make them into three-dimensional people.

Travis Paquet

This is a win in our book as far as I am concerned. We keep working hard. It'll come.

Gena Prochaska

That's why I chose it, it's the first book in a series. This way they get the first book and it will suck them in. It draws them in and gets them interested in the book, and then they want to continue the series. And it gets them reading, which is the whole point of this group.

Augustine Birrell

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Augustine Birrell

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Arthur Koestler

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

Sathya Baba

This is bad; this is good - can such judgments be ever made about anything in God's creation when all are manifestations of His will?

Steve Stanley

At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.

David Barton

You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Aziz Ansari

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

Richard Leakey

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Spike Milligan

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Jacques Monod

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

John Donne

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Ben Harper

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

Ani Difranco

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

Aneurin Bevan

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Missy Peregrym

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Paulo Coelho

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Mili Avital

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

Mike Mills

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Patti LuPone

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

James Curtis

Obviously to be successful and stay on TV, the show has to be entertaining, ... You can stick to what's real about the relationship between these individuals. That, in and of itself, is entertainment enough to warrant being kept on the air.

Dave Tippett

From an entertainment factor, we held up our end tonight.

Carol Burnett

I'm so happy that we can share the many years of music and sketches from our shows with the students of UCLA and people interested in the entertainment industry,

Joe Burnett

Most of the entertainment is over by 11:45 p.m..

Frankie Valli

The way the lyric, ?you're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you.? It's just magical.

Cam Newton

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

Brent Runyon

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

Brent Weeks

Elene gasped and sat up. "Kylar Thaddeus Stern!" Kylar giggled. "Thaddeus? That's a good one. I knew a Thaddeus once." "So did I. He was a blind idiot." "Really?" Kylar said, his eyes dancing. "The one I knew was famous for his gigantic-" "Kylar!" Elene interrupted, motioning toward Uly. "His gigantic what?" Uly asked. "Now you did it." Elene said, "His gigantic what, Kyler?" "Feet. And you know what they say about big feet." He winked lasciviously at Elene. "What?" Uly asked. "Big Shoes," Kylar said.

Bret Easton Ellis

The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.

Bret Easton Ellis

She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

Bob Dylan

You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes

Bill Hybels

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

Brian Greene

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Clarice Lispector

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Aldous Huxley

Words are good servants but bad masters.

E. O. Wilson

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

E. M. Forster

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Thomas Paine

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

Solon

In all things let reason be your guide.

Steve Jobs

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Sri Aurobindo

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Ringo Starr

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

Tom Hicks

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

Dave Vestal

We showed we could strike through the air. We showed we could come back.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Bob Dylan

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Bobby Fischer

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

Miranda Lambert

I'm wide open and raw emotionally to the crowd.

Larry Vanderhoef

I'm worried about that, ... It's a widening gap.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.