Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Khayyam

Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Olivia Colman

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

Oliver Sacks

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.

Oliver Sacks

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

Octavia Spencer

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

Emile M. Cioran

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Emile M. Cioran

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

Ellen Glasgow

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Ellen DeGeneres

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Eric Schlosser

Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

Epictetus

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.

Emily Blunt

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

Dax Shepard

But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.

Andrea Roth

If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

Scott Simon

We're not going to be a team that tries to hit home runs all the time. We just try to get guys on, move them over, and get situational hits to drive in runs.

We're not going to be all that slow. It's not going to be a drawn out process, hopefully. We hope to be able to do something starting from next month.

We're not experienced in driving in snow and ice here, so the prudent thing is to have people off the roadway during a situation like this.

We're not even in the peak driving season. Imagine what it'll be like the Fourth of July weekend, or even Memorial Day.

We're not driving around with extra booster seats in our van.

We sent out an e-mail to all employees saying ?don?t drink the water,?

Jenson Button

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got that tag because I was young, flying around in jets and driving fast cars. I always took my driving seriously, but I suppose I enjoyed life... But I'm not a playboy.

It's not a pleasant thing, to see a young person's life snuffed out. Driving the van, I see a lot of people - a lot of people that I know sometimes - and you realize how many different families this affects.

Each person in the walk-through drama gets to walk this street of gold before they leave in the final scene. We even have the river of life and the Pearly Gates in this scene.

Virgil

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Steve Johnson

Everyone agrees that the test procedures and our calculations are outdated. We've got 20 years of new technology, 20 years of experience, 20 years of new driving conditions,

David Williams

Everybody's kind of laid back, ... No one really wants to spend money. There's really not too many drive ups. They're usually the ones that rent. It's disappointing.

Everybody says you can't guard her. They've got other pieces you've got to watch. Klein can score 40 at the drop of a hat.

Mike Jacobs

The big leagues to me this game is no different than a Double-A, Triple-A game. We still have to play the game the right way, and it's making plays on the field and driving in runs when you get the chance.

The big driver of the market lately has been oil. That storm isn't going to hit and it looks positive for the market.

Tim Johnson

Not surprisingly, it's hard to draw hard-and-fast conclusions on how he will vote, ... There is no question he is a conservative.

These people are threatening you and me when they're on the road. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Brian Reynolds

These numbers, they're OK. They're a little better than expected. It's like a drop in the ocean.