13484 Quotes & Sayings

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them ... sometimes, and it would surprise them. — Jake Gyllenhaal

The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all. — Amy Trask

It is useless to say you have no time. There is plenty of time, if men will employ it. Time may be short, but time is always long enough for prayer. Daniel had the affairs of a kingdom on his hands, and yet he prayed three times a day. David was ruler over a mighty nation, and yet he says, "Evening and morning and at noon will I pray" (Psalms 55:17). When time is really wanted, time can always be found. — J.C. Ryle

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

I used to dream, and I used to vow;
I wouldn't dream of it now. — Morrissey

The artist who thinks negatively about his or her work invites others to think about it negatively as well. — Brooke Shaden

There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible. — Cinda Williams Chima

If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as. — Fernando Pessoa

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

I'm not sure I can be what they want me to be. But I'll try. — A.S. King

If you're a lame brain, then you're a lame brain. I can't help that. — Tori Amos

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space. — Rene Burri

Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to pay your money to the woman showing you the door. You see the dirt on the walls and your sorry image in the mirror. — Karl Marlantes

These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing. — Twyla Tharp