Std Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money. — Matthew Lillard

The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb ... has placed us on the knife-edge of history. — Henry M. Jackson

At first Nick was able to divide this fantasy from reality, but as time passed, he became more sure that the fantasy was reality. — Stephen King

I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. — Maggie Nelson

The smart thing to do was quit while I was ahead, but I wasn't really ahead and I've never been a quitter — Alexis Hall

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo

Fate, dear Brutus, lies not with the stars but within ourselves. — Julius Caesar

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it. — Horatio Nelson

He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices. — Walter Isaacson

Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it. — James M. Lindsay

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want. — Paddy Considine

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

The end has to come from within. — Richard Bowes