Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Idle

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Eric Hoffer

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

Eric Bentley

If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

Eric Bana

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

Eric Bana

It's usually very, very hard for me to pick up a script that was written and try and see myself as a part of that, especially when you're used to performing all your own material. It's OK with drama, I like being handed great material but I think with comedy it's far more personal and probably a lot harder for me to find a fit.

Emraan Hashmi

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

The combination is helping to underpin equity markets and should drive them higher.

The idea is to try to sell this draft to the Sunnis. That's what this is all about.

The idea is to sip and savor a drink or two.

E. O. Wilson

The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities after various regional markets find stable levels. It's looking like the Federal Reserve may be done with raising interest rates in the spring and rates will have peaked, removing the fear that they were going to keep drifting further up.

Robert Thompson

The home run he hit out of the park -- his most famous hit and what he will always be known for -- is a really great song named after a mixed drink, ... And it's one you tend to drink when you're in moments of festivity.

The home page is often a very strong factor in driving future usagethings that you wouldn't think would have such a strong impact.

James Franco

If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

James Franco

I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.

James Belushi

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

Napoleon Hill

If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

Oksana Baiul

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Norman Mailer

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

Orson Welles

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

Orlando Bloom

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Orlando Bloom

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

Orhan Pamuk

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Orhan Pamuk

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Olympia Dukakis

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

Omar Khayyam

A drink is shorter than a tale