Verdenews Quotes & Sayings

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you. — Dr. Seuss

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind. — Jim Davis

The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you. — Imtiaz Ali

After the bone-grinding cold of the lands beyond the Wall, the caves were blessedly warm, and when the chill crept out of the rock the singers would light fires to drive it off again. Down here there was no wind, no snow, no ice, no dead things reaching out to grab you, only dreams and rushlight and the kisses of the ravens. And the whisperer in darkness. — George R R Martin

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck. — Joan Leslie

If you want to direct, you've got to work. — John Goodman

There are no guarantees that if we keep the Sabbath we will be successful. But honouring the Sabbath (and not overworking the other six days) will give us an opportunity to grow in our trust of God and experience his faithfulness. If we take time to honour the Sabbath we may actually find that we are less productive than we were before ... God's provision for us as we honour his rhythms may be the grace to accept being passed over for a promotion, while gaining a greater sense of fulfillment as we do our work more aware of God, ourselves, and the people around us. — Ken Shigematsu

The heart is as insatiable as the grave till Jesus enters it, and then it is a cup full to overflowing. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. — Luc Besson

Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people / get power over one another? is an algebraic question — Anne Carson

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor. — Anthony Hopkins

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator? — Jonathan Haidt

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness. — Marie Antoinette

Let's feed out tears to the dragons of misery, but let's never crawl in their mouths. — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

I'm a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s. — Lenny Abrahamson