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.

Scott Terry

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

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.

Max Levchin

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

Miranda Lambert

I learned a lot about my audience and about myself as a performer, what I like to do live.

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 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.

Travis Paquet

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

Rick Riordan

The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

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.

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.

John Donne

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

Mark Shand

I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

Mark Shand

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

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

Ani Difranco

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

Allan Hamilton

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Alexander McCall Smith

When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.

Douglas Booth

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

Deepak Chopra

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

Aneurin Bevan

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

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..

Eric Snow

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

Gloria Estefan

People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.

Jasper Fforde

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

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.

Charles Kingsley

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

Charles Churchill

In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

Charles Colson

Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.

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.

Aristotle

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Aristotle

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

Dominic Monaghan

The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.

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.

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.

Andre Gide

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Anne Fortier

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

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.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

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

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.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

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.