Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelangelo Antonioni

I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.

Michel Hazanavicius

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. For example, Steve McQueen, if you cut the sound, you don't know what he's acting really. He gives to the lines, to the text, something very special, and he's very good. He was a great actor. But, to do a silent movie, you have to have more expressive actors.

Michel Foucault

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

Michel Foucault

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

Mark Ronson

I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

Mark Ruffalo

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

Mark Dayton

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

Maeve Binchy

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

Mae West

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ....

Ma Jian

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

Lyman Beecher

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

Michael Crichton

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

Michael Crichton

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

Michel de Montaigne

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

Michael Savage

Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.

Mark Twain

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

Look, when your opponent is cutting their own throat, you don't get in the way.

Several telecom deals have yet to be finalized, but once they are we can expect to see more fallout, especially since many of these deals were made with the sole purpose of cutting costs,

Several departments have increased demand for services, and how do you meet those demands if you're cutting staff?

Pat Riley

Obviously I'm very happy with the win and the fact that we had 26 assists and a lot of guys involved. Tonight we did a lot better at cutting and spotting quickly. We just made a lot better decisions.

Possibly the flooding was triggered by the cutting down of trees higher up the hill. But we don't know yet for sure.

John Deane

CCTV will make a real difference, but the human touch remains essential in cutting crime.

David Nevins

I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.

Gary Larson

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20Êyears, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

Gary Larson

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20 years, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

My cutting was on point, but the offensive line was phenomenal, ... I just ran hard and ran straight, not trying to get any angles.

Alex Johnson

Now we can talk about cutting taxes or reforming the tax code.

Kit Bond

If Americans are not using cutting edge technology to extract raw materials efficiently, or produce record harvests, they are losing their jobs.

From their point of view, there's no inflation danger. The main risk is to slow growth, and they should keep cutting rates.

Paul Brooks

If it's worth cutting a tree for, it's worth doing right.

Fred Allen

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard -- let him worry about cutting it.

Ross Anderson

He was a strong leader, extremely competent. He walked into an utter disaster, and slashed spending without cutting corners.