Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Scott Lynch

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

Shunryu Suzuki

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.

Shirin Ebadi

We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water.

Shannon Hoon

Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.

Shanola Hampton

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

Seth

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

Sean Scully

I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.

Lewis Mumford

(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

Leonard Nimoy

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

Lee Kuan Yew

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

Kyle Gallner

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

Neil LaBute

Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.

Neil Simon

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

Neil Peart

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

Marco Rubio

This election [2016] is about electing a president that will restore our economic vibrancy so that the American dream can expand to reach more people and change more lives than ever before. And rebuild our Military and our intelligence programs so that we can remain the strongest nation on earth.

Marcus Aurelius

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Marcia Clark

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

Thomas A. Edison

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Thomas A. Edison

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Simon Conway Morris

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Simon Beaufoy

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

Sheryl Sandberg

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

Shelagh Delaney

I have heard people say that they drink to forget their sorrows but the more I drink the more sorrows I collect

Sheila Ballantyne

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

Sharon Gless

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama,

Sharon Gless

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

Sharon Horgan

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

Sharon Olds

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Neil Patrick Harris

May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?

Natalie Goldberg

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.