Ben Ish Chai Quotes & Sayings

There are some movies that deserve criticism. They want people to know that it's a great dramatic accomplishment and has some great performances in it. But, c'mon. Yes, you will have some fun if you go see 'Snakes on a Plane.' Snakes are biting people - and they're biting them right on screen. There's nothing to review. It's not 'Snakes on the Waterfront.' You don't have snakes going, 'I coulda been a constrictor.' No. Hell no. It's 'Snakes on a Plane.' — Samuel L. Jackson

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey

Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the hero, the love interest, the comedian, the villain. Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set. — Blake Griffin

I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon. — Jane Badler

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. — James D. Watson

Take care of the elderly people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You know it's real when you are who you think you are — Drake

To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. — Will Self

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. — Abraham Verghese

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy. — Marianne Faithfull

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living. — Patti Smith