FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being ... (Pauline Kael)

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that. ... (Jeremy Irvine)

The sun is the sacred morning light. ... (Lailah Gifty Akita)

We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself and, in so doing, becoming more fully alive ... (Carol S. Pearson)

Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the difference between friendship and frivolity, one eventually takes ... (Eldonna Edwards)

What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot of guys now will say Colt 45 is a beer. ... (Pat Gillick)

Good dog," Nick said. "That's one of the tricks I've taught him, shaking water on girls so they back into my arms." "Really! How smart of Rocky - and you, ... (Elizabeth Chandler)

Those that have received Christ must by faith live upon him, and not receive his grace in vain. ... (Matthew Henry)

Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at ... (Jennifer Donnelly)

It was a flame in the boy, this power he had acquired over the world they moved in. He gave up being contemptuous, since he was the one now who ... (David Malouf)

To provide leadership to those who can't see over the horizon, leaders need to assure others of what the future is likely to hold. ... (Roger Parrott)

I truly meant to only find you and bring you back to the landing, sweet, but when I saw you here alone, I could not help myself. It has been ... (Karen Harper)

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home. ... (Kit Harington)

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut. ... (William O'Neill)

Therefore, to you, and to the fifty governors, I have a request. Please, do not send me politicians. We do not have the time to do the things that must ... (Tom Clancy)

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this ... (Virchand Gandhi)

AUGUST 25 A Special Angel By Maria Gillard Thank you for my childhood, for my laughing heart and soul for all your magic, and for being bold Thank you for ... (Cathleen O'Connor)

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start ... (Sung Kang)

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, ... (Leo Tolstoy)

What then, is it not possible to be free from faults? It is not possible; but this is possible: to direct your efforts incessantly to being faultess. For we must ... (Epictetus)

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. ... (Christian Nestell Bovee)

If I ever went, I'd want to go peacefully in my sleep. I wouldn't want to plan my own death. ... (Dustin Diamond)

We are asking if thought can be aware of itself. That is rather a complex question, and requires very careful observation. Thought has created wars through nationalism, through sectarian religions. ... (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Tears impress no one. But, oh yeah, there's no one here to impress. So I go ahead and let tears fall. Rain. Storm. Flood. My pillow soaks with the salt ... (Ellen Hopkins)

There is increasing evidence that at least some of the targeting of epigenetic modifications can be explained by interactions with long ncRNAs. Jeannie Lee and her colleagues have recently investigated ... (Nessa Carey)

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. ... (Barbara Jordan)

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use ... (Howard Florey)

I'd be cheating everyone here, the staff and rest of my teammates, if I wasn't able to stay on top of my work. It was almost like therapy, to come ... (Roger Clemens)

Don't you dare mock me. I've seen more pain than you can even imagine. (Kiara) Yeah, your mother was shot dead in front of you. Boo-hoo. So what? You think ... (Sherrilyn Kenyon)

The damaging part of learning to live your life in two parts , whether in reality or fantasy, cannot be underestimated. It is an infectious skill that you learned, one ... (Alan Downs)