Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Tony Kushner

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Steve Martin

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

Steve Martin

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Roman Polanski

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Sam Mendes

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Rosalind Russell

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Rosalind Russell

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Charles Bukowski

Angels, we have grown apart.

David Hogan

Do people want a concrete-lined river like in Los Angeles or a nice river with trees and vegetation? A critical habitat designation means we'd get the nice trees and vegetation.

Robert Blair

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

Robert Blair

Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

Rita Dove

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Thomas Paine

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

Sylvia Browne

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

Suzi Quatro

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

Robert Herrick

O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Bruno Bettelheim

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Bruce Willis

Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Joe Legerski

We've had a lot of different players step up for us (in the post).

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.