Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
~By Marion Milner ~
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.
~By Devon Sawa ~
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
~By Marc Maron ~
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.
~By William Shatner ~
If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~By John Tyndall ~
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
~By Xenophon ~
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
~By Sam Shepard ~
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.
~By Corin Nemec ~
I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.
~By Rex Hunt ~
I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.
~By Shepard Smith ~
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
~By Merlin Olsen ~
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
~By Chris Hemsworth ~
It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.
~By Barry Levinson ~
I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments.
~By Adam Savage ~
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
~By Walter Pater ~
Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
~By Angus Wilson ~
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
~By Kevin Johnson ~
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
~By Michael Bolton ~
One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
~By George W. Bush ~
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
~By John Milton ~
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
~By Charles Morgan ~
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
~By Stephan Jenkins ~
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~By Corita Kent ~
If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
~By James Lipton ~
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
~By George Eliot ~
You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.
~By Adam Pascal ~
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
~By John Barton ~
I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.
~By Nia Long ~
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
~By Eric Cantona ~
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
~By Victoria Secunda ~
The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
~By John Singleton ~
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
~By Jason Dohring ~
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
~By Walter Pater ~
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
~By Corita Kent ~
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
~By Bill Laswell ~
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.
~By James Young ~
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
~By Marcel Proust ~
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
~By Helen Keller ~
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
~By Rita Dove ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~By Billy Graham ~
Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
~By Perry Como ~
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
~By Josiah Royce ~
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
~By Pamela Anderson ~
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
~By Jules Renard ~
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
~By Edith Wharton ~
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
~By Al Boliska ~
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
~By Boris Vian ~
Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
~By Heywood Broun ~
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
~By Danny Glover ~
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
~By Doug Coupland ~
There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.
~By William Bell ~
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.
~By Gina Philips ~
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
~By William Cowper ~
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
There are no ordinary moments.
~By Dan Millman ~
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.
~By Edwidge Danticat ~
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
~By River Phoenix ~
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