No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ~By Alan Alda ~
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. ~By Peter Shaffer ~
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ~By Geoffrey Rush ~
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really. ~By Christine Keeler ~
I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation. ~By Norodom Sihamoni ~
I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be. ~By LeAnn Rimes ~
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. ~By Lucy Liu ~
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares. ~By Jack Kevorkian ~
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. ~By Tupac Shakur ~
Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening. ~By Carrie Underwood ~
The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body. ~By John Bruton ~
I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit. ~By Nigel Mansell ~
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous. ~By Kate Moss ~
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. ~By John Keegan ~
Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. ~By Muddy Waters ~
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. ~By Mason Cooley ~
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record. ~By Inge de Bruijn ~
We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare. ~By Barack Obama ~
Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was. ~By Judi Dench ~
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that. ~By Jeff Ament ~
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else. ~By Alan Sugar ~
Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast. ~By Joan of Arc ~
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself. ~By Henry L. Stimson ~
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ~By Paul Coffey ~
Acting coaches in Hollywood were always telling me to use my hands and body more. But that was never me. I just breathe and sometimes it doesn't look as if I'm doing that. ~By Perry Como ~
No man can given anybody his freedom. ~By Stokely Carmichael ~
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ~By Adam Clarke ~
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. ~By Liv Ullmann ~
You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain. ~By Lauren Graham ~
I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh. ~By Luke Wilson ~
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac. ~By Meg White ~
I speak two languages, Body and English. ~By Mae West ~
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul. ~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it. ~By Greg Norman ~
Everybody's a filmmaker today. ~By John Milius ~
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity. ~By Steven Chu ~
The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. ~By Merle Haggard ~
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important. ~By Alan Mollohan ~
The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through. ~By Whitey Herzog ~
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room. ~By Stan Getz ~
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ~By Jerry Pournelle ~
So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ~By Archie Shepp ~
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. ~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. ~By Jane Grey ~
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll. ~By Verne Troyer ~
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. ~By Margaret Oliphant ~
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. ~By Edwin Meese ~
Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us. ~By Owen Hart ~
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. ~By Sam Ewing ~
When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway. ~By Hugh Jackman ~
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now. ~By John Carmack ~
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. ~By Anita Roddick ~
I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers. ~By Robert Mueller ~
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. ~By George Konrad ~
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. ~By Arthur Hailey ~
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. ~By Virginia Woolf ~
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music. ~By Percy Heath ~
Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling. ~By John Badham ~
But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together. ~By James Stockdale ~
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. ~By Desmond Llewelyn ~
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. ~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. ~By Jean Rostand ~
I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there. ~By Kristen Bell ~
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border. ~By Dave Winfield ~
And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders. ~By Edie Brickell ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. ~By George W. Bush ~
I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself. ~By Winona Ryder ~
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' ~By Roy Blount, Jr. ~
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. ~By Daniel Okrent ~
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. ~By Angela Carter ~
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it? ~By Keith Jarrett ~
They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend. ~By Daniel Petrie ~
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something! ~By Sally Ride ~
I think everybody's nuts. ~By Johnny Depp ~
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part. ~By R. Lee Ermey ~
I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture. ~By Morgan Freeman ~
I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world. ~By Alex Campbell ~
I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember. ~By Dick York ~
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. ~By Stephen Breyer ~
Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first. ~By Steve Lacy ~
I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. ~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way. ~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can. ~By Franka Potente ~
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. ~By Kenneth Grahame ~
I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things. ~By Debbie Gibson ~
Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops. ~By Christian Bale ~
I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give. ~By Steve Guttenberg ~
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. ~By Richard Pryor ~
When every one is somebody, Then no one's anybody! ~By William Schwenck Gilbert ~
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that. ~By Donna Summer ~
I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing. ~By Billy Corgan ~
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ~By Simone Weil ~
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role. ~By Sanaa Lathan ~
It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you. ~By Norma McCorvey ~
I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up. ~By Jane Horrocks ~
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. ~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~By Swami Vivekananda ~
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. ~By Michael McKean ~
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