Miscellany News Quotes & Sayings

In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses. — Jonathan Groff

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again. — Marco Rubio

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time. — Albert Einstein

To write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. — Mary Oliver

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?' — Naomie Harris

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain — Paul Feyerabend

Voltaire," says M. Guizot, "was the first person in France who spoke of Shakespeare's genius; and although he spoke of him merely as a barbarian genius, the French public were of the opinion that he had said too much in his favor. Indeed, they thought it nothing less than profanation to apply the words genius and glory to dramas which they considered as crude as they were coarse. — William Shakespeare

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it" — Jim Gaffigan

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. — Laurence Sterne

Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom - I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for spontaneity. — Roberta Pearce

The will of man is his happiness. — Friedrich Schiller