When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970's for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Bruce DernOf all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other
MetastasioIf you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
Sam MendesEvery piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
Rumer GoddenWe all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Charlotte WhittonHad W G Grace been born in ancient Greece, the Iliad would have been a different book.
Bishop Of HerefordOnce the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.
H R HaldemanAt the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate that is, frankly, increasingly obsessed with modishness and flim-flam [on Menzies Campbell]
Paddy AshdownI will speak English with you when I can be sure that I know all the right words, because you are very good at twisting things and I am very careful.
Fabio CapelloMy method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.
Christian BaleTragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Jean AnouilhThe coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor
Thomas CarlyleWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene DescartesMadam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.
William HenleyWhere love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other (Gesammelte Werke)
Carl Gustav JungAs we say in Portugal, they [Spurs] brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal. I would have been frustrated if I had been a supporter who paid £50 to watch this game because Spurs came to defend. There was only one team looking to win, they only came not to concede - it's not fair for the football we played
Jose MourinhoSocial Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear
Bill FristHe was every other inch a gentleman.
Rebecca WestUntil the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
Gore VidalI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Marjorie HolmesHistory teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
Arthur GoldbergMen are never brave, are they?
Cherie BlairYou can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.
Bruce WillisAlmost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
Harold BrodkeyIt is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.
J B PriestleyHe who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Niccolo Machiavelli'Nine days on and I've not seen the game. Not a chance. Maybe I never will.' - Jonny on still not having seen England's World Cup win on video!
Johnny WilkinsonCricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Paul HoganOnly an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NovalisThe most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
Heywood BrounSomeone needs to tell me where the money is, because I cannot find the shit.
Joss StoneWe had a meeting in Manchester with managers and the FA about the Respect campaign. And I was very clear, forget the campaign because Mr Ferguson was killing the referees, killing Mr Atkinson, killing Mr Hackett
Rafael BenitezFriends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is.
Jim MorrisonAt first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom (on the first atomic explosion)
William LaurenceIf the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?]
Eric JohnstonMaybe it's my birthday, I honestly don't know. I'm 58? There's not much I need - I have plenty of socks
Arsene WengerWhether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Douglas MacarthurWe will be phasing out all low skilled migration schemes for wokers from outside the EU.
John ReidEven for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
TacitusEvery man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul RichterArms and the man I sing [Aeneid I, opening words]
VirgilThe ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me
Thomas GrayThere are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
Jennifer LopezNew York is crazy. It's always cool to do something here. It's just keeping up with what the crowd likes. People are so vocal about it. Some love it or hate it. If they love or hate it, they'll come see it. I think it helps tennis
Bethanie MattekThe truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Oscar WildeIf I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
Arthur MillerI probably carry more scar tissue on my derriere than any other candidate- that's political scar tissue.
Alexander HaigIf you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais NinModesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William HazlittThe Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin
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