Acicates Quotes & Sayings

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else. — Michael Ian Black

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them. — Peter Jackson

Rain is the last thing you want when you're chasing someone in Miami. They drive shitty enough as it is, but on top of that, snow is a foreign concept, which means they never got the crash course in traction judgment for when pavement slickness turns less than ideal. And because of the land-sea temperature differential, Florida has regular afternoon rain showers. Nothing big, over in a jiff. But minutes later, all major intersections in Miami-Dade are clogged with debris from spectacular smash-ups. In Northern states, snow teaches drivers real fast about the Newtonian physics of large moving objects. I haven't seen snow either, but I drink coffee, so the calculus of tire-grip ratio is intuitive to my body. — Tim Dorsey

Miss Alcasid commented. "You know, when you believe, when you have faith in what you ask for, even though how insignificant it may seem to others, as long as your prayer is said with pure intentions, it will be granted." (Chapter 18) — Ryanne Salve

You never came out the way you came in. — Francis Spufford

I see what you think you mean," said the magician, "but you are wrong. There is no excuse for war, none whatever, and whatever wrong which your nation might be doing to mine-short of war-my nation would be in the wrong if I started a war so as to redress it. A murderer, for instance, is not allowed to plead that his victim was rich and oppresing hhim, so why should a nation be allowed to? Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not force. — T.H. White

I can afford just about anything I'm willing to pay for. — Katja Millay

And some will believe. The fools. But others will not. Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth. — Victoria Aveyard

Johnny: "Would you punish me for something I didn't do? " Teacher: "No, of course not. " Johnny: "Good, because I didn't do my homework." *** — Various

It is tragic for our God, Who gave us His Son to die on the cross, to beg us to love Him. — Jack Hyles

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.' — Jeb Hensarling

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look. — Scott Bakula