Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zeljko Ivanek

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

Tom Stoppard

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

Clive Sinclair

It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

Peter Capaldi

My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.

James Callis

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

Tom Stoppard

One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.

Tom Stoppard

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Jane Gardam

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Tom Stoppard

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find out about the micro-narrative when you're investigating a text.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Tom Nolan

Winner never understood how that was a factor. It was always very alarming.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.