Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Source Unknown

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Steve Tisch

I think one master serving 32 masters is much easier.

Johnny Damon

We know it's going to come down to this weekend. It's the master plan. God's way. Yankees-Red Sox.

Jamie Curtis

You know you have a problem long before you seek a solution to it. You think you can master it yourself.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Steve Tisch

I don't think it's necessary. That's 2 masters serving 32 masters. I think 1 master serving 32 masters is much easier.

Tony Gwynn

He might just be very comfortable doing what he's doing. If he is, he's at the top of the list, then. He's a master of his craft.

Dave Parker

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Nevada Democrat

We're willing to work through these amendments. If they want to have these votes, we'll have the votes.

Sara Evans

We're very willing to look into it, but we're still at a very preliminary stage.

Bill Walsh

We aren't willing to concede it won't be ready.

He Yafei

We are willing to import more U.S. goods.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Brooke Niquette

We're so young, but we're willing to learn. We can do well.