Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

Oskar Kokoschka

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

Lloyd Alexander

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.

Nichelle Nichols

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

Ernest Poole

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

Donald Pleasence

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

James Freeman Clarke

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.

Sean O'Casey

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Mark Spitz

All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.

Thomas Wolfe

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Isobelle Carmody

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

Elaine Stritch

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

Mindy Kaling

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Cyrus S. Poonawalla

Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.

Blake Anderson

A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.

Peaches Geldof

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

Kim Ji-woon

A lot of people are very interested that a Korean director has made a western. But when I look at the reactions of the audience, I realise the points at which people laugh are the same for a Korean audience and an international audience.

Sia Furler

A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carrie Preston

A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.

Paul Butterfield

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

Wes Montgomery

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

Erin Cummings

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

Kali Hawk

A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

Chuck Norris

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Tina Yothers

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Gerry Beckley

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

Dannii Minogue

Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Gustav Klimt

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Lalla Ward

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

Griffin Dunne

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

Helen Clark

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Antoine Predock

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

George Smathers

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

Bob Mayer

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

Lila Acheson Wallace

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Bill Brandt

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Niels Bohr

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Carl Andre

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Terence Rattigan

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

Nancy McKeon

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

Texas Guinan

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

William Randolph Hearst

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

David Bailey

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.