Unregenerate Define Quotes & Sayings

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. — James Buchan

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually. — Gary Oldman

Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals. — Charles Darwin

When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us. — Nina LaCour

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. — Alexander Pope

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974. — Jet Li

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. — Fritz Kreisler

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right. — Joseph Parker

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. — Nicolas Cage

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.' — William Makepeace Thackeray

Happiness in its purest form is held in silence. — Anne-Marie Cockburn

There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more. — Terry Pratchett

It looked like a ghost had dressed up the forest in tulle. — Courtney King Walker

While trying to play God, all else fails — D.L. Narrol