Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Elie Wiesel

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Elie Wiesel

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Elie Wiesel

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Barbara Kingsolver

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Bono

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Barry Hannah

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

Arjun Rampal

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Elizabeth I

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Tamara Tunie

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

Toby Jones

It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.'

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

Aeschylus

To learn is to be young, however old.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Liam Neeson

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

Milan Mandaric

My thoughts are now and always will be with George,

Don Cooper

My thoughts are here, and I want to be here, ... I want to win this now, here. That's my only focus.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Alice Waters

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't.

Anne M. Mulcahy

One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.

E. M. Forster

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Douglas Conant

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

Duke Ellington

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Doris Day

Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

Angelina Jolie

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.

Doris Lessing

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.