Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Korman

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

Tom Stoppard

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

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

Gina Laughlin

A lease rejection does not signal any type of reduced operation.

Mitt Romney

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

Marcus Valerius Martial

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

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.

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.

Pope Francis

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

Stephen Covey

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

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

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

Hilary Clinton

As I understood it, it was not, no,

Joan Van Ark

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Elie Wiesel

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

Daniel Johnston

To understand and be understood is to be free.

Stephen Covey

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.