Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Lau

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Alber Elbaz

I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

Albert J. Nock

The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.

Amanda Hocking

He stepped into my room with one graceful move, as if entering through bedroom windows was nothing out of the ordinary.

Annie Leibovitz

In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.

Annie Dillard

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

Annie Dillard

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

Annabella Sciorra

Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.

AnnaLynne McCord

I feel like we are so much more comfortable sweeping things under the rug and putting on a brave face, and to me, sweeping under the rug is a coward move, not a brave move at all. I want to get out there and have a conversation.

Clay Shirky

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

Anna Quindlen

You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.

Anna Quindlen

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

Anna Quindlen

So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.

Anna Quindlen

So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

Anna Quindlen

I really feel like if you can get past your fear, if you can say, "Uh-uh, I'm afraid to do that and I'm going to do it anyhow," that that's really the way to have a satisfying life moving forward. I think I had that kind of fearlessness even as a young person. It wasn't tempered by experience or wisdom, but it took me a long way.

Angelo Dundee

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree ... but oak trees don't move.

Angelo Dundee

My kid could move like a lightweight

Cindy Gallop

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

Cindy Sheehan

And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind.

Cindy Crawford

I married someone whom I was close friends with first. I think that was a really good move.

Cillian Murphy

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

Cillian Murphy

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

Chuck Todd

You can't say Hillary Clinton is not evolving as a candidate. And boy is she trying very hard to move to where the Democratic base is.

Alfred Brendel

In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

Alfred Bester

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Alfred Bester

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." Why can't we all move forward together?" Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." Who leads?" The men who must...driven men, compelled men." Freak men." You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.

Alfred de Vigny

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Alfonso Cuaron

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

Alfie Kohn

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

Angela Merkel

I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.

Angela Carter

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

Angela Carter

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

Andrew Gould

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage.