Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eduard Hanslick

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

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.

Jason Armit

You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it.

Robert Thomson

The Times has a sophisticated and fast-growing audience of women and men. Our renaissance readers are passionate about quality content and Times2 will provide them with the best writing in Britain, the cleverest columnists and the most elegant design in the land.

Scott Terry

We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.

Michael Ryan

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

Victor Koo

On the monetization front, our strengthening leadership in internet user base and broadening reach of our platform have already positioned us as a must-buy platform in online video for brand advertisers to reach a nationwide audience within China.

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.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

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.

James McHenry

The rich do not possess aught more precious than their Bible...the poor cannot be presented by the rich with anything of greater value...It is a book of councils and directions, fitted to every situation in which man can be placed.

Travis Paquet

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

Philip Chien

This is an important book on the shuttle. I hope that 20 or 30 years from now, people are still going to be referring to this book when they talk about the mission.

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?

John Ray

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

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.

Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Jacques Monod

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

Rahul Gandhi

I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.

Karen Joy Fowler

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

John Donne

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

Mark Calcavecchia

I've always been an emotional player, I'm an emotional guy,

Arundhati Roy

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

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

John Caverly

You have to give kids the opportunity to trust. These are just physical, but they'll lead to emotional trust.

Thad Dickey

This was a big game and a big emotional win for us. We got the pressure off our backs. Now, our girls think they can win the parish championship.

Matthew Perry

When I read the script of Chandler, I thought WOW I can really shake hands with this guy. Chandlers a sarcastic guy, dry, funny - a guy who's not comfortable unless he's joking and hiding the emotional stuff that's going on with him. And Yeah, I can relate to that a bit.

Adam Sandler

Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy,

Ani Difranco

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

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..

Gregory Maguire

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

Eric Snow

To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Linda Foley

We are reaching out on a number of levels and hope they entertain our bid.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Richard Natonski

I wanted to come out here to look you in the eyes to tell you that this is a good aircraft,

George White

I've run from four hurricanes, and every time the eye finds me, ... That's why I'm not running from this one. Why run if it's going to find me?

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.

Alan Cumming

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

Alan Dershowitz

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Charles Kennedy

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

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.

Bret Michaels

I always think in life passion supersedes everything.

Blaise Pascal

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

Edmund Spenser

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Aristotle

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

Joe Torre

You go up there and you try to reason with yourself and there's nothing that makes sense to even think about. They're all very capable.

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Debbi Fields

We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share.

Clifton Fadiman

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Claes Oldenburg

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

Richard Maloney

This is a strike that should not have happened.

Dave Vestal

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

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

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.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Even in my age now, I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Miranda Lambert

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

Larry Vanderhoef

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

Katy Perry

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems,

Thalia

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