Onderscheiden Engels Quotes & Sayings

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule. — Ridley Scott

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog. — Anne Bonny

It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless. — Barack Obama

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. — Denis Diderot

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it. — Rosecrans Baldwin

They've grown comfortable with their money,' I said. 'They genuinely believe they're entitled to it. This conviction gives them a kind of rude health. They glow a little. — Don DeLillo

If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road. — Stephen R. Covey

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before. — Bill Bryson

She seemed a series of slight flaws best expressed in a beauty spot above her right lip. And he understood that the sum of all these blemishes was somehow beauty, and there was about this beauty a power, and that power was at once conscious and unconscious. — Richard Flanagan