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.

Leslie Caron

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

Karrine Steffans

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Penelope Cruz

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.

Elisabeth Shue

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

Emma Roberts

I never not wanted to become an actress.

Freida Pinto

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

Bipasha Basu

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

Catherine Deneuve

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

Diana Quick

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.