Finding Humor In Bad Situations Quotes & Sayings

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over. — Andy Serkis

The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others. — Peter F. Drucker

The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day
a way of relating. — Joyce Carol Oates

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain. — Conrad Aiken

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring. — Tony Curtis

One of the downsides of being special is that you feel out of place wherever you go. — Gavin McInnes

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it. — Q-Tip

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality. — Fred Brooks

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come. — Langston Hughes

The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. — Robert Frost

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood. — Edmund Waller

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. — Chris Christie