Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Greenwood

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

Colin Farrell

I count 'Underworld 4′ as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.

Colin Firth

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

Colin Firth

If I'd loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in - because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

Colin Firth

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

Colin Firth

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

Claude Monet

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

Dan Simmons

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Dan Simmons

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

Dan Simmons

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Dan Rather

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

Dan Rather

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Dan Rather

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

Dan Rather

Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.

Dan Quayle

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.

Dan Eldon

The journey is the destination.

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Cynthia Ozick

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

Colonel Sanders

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

Dar Williams

I think music is another language.

Danielle Steel

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

Daniel Negreanu

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.

Dan O'Brien

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

Dan Lipinski

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Corrie Ten Boom

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Corrie Ten Boom

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Cornel West

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being.

Cornel West

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

Cornel West

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.