Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
~By Brad Paisley ~
Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.
~By Russell Crowe ~
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
~By Victoria Secunda ~
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.
~By Augusto Roa Bastos ~
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
~By Jane Seymour ~
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
~By Mario Batali ~
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
~By Bill Laswell ~
I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
~By Andy Garcia ~
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 ~
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
~By Gary Larson ~
Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
~By Bill Condon ~
It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.
~By LaToya London ~
You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
~By Denzel Washington ~
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
~By George Saunders ~
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
~By Willa Cather ~
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 ~
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
~By Winona Ryder ~
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 ~
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
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 ~
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 ~
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
~By John Sexton ~
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 moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
~By Shania Twain ~
Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.
~By Andre Agassi ~
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
~By Julius Erving ~
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
~By Barry Levinson ~
I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
~By Randy West ~
I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
~By Rube Goldberg ~
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
There are no ordinary moments.
~By Dan Millman ~
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
~By Bernardo Bertolucci ~
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
~By Harrison Birtwistle ~
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 ~
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
~By Fran Drescher ~
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
~By Corita Kent ~
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 ~
I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
~By Jules Renard ~
It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
~By Eric Braeden ~
It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.
~By John Robinson ~
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
~By Tom Cruise ~
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
~By Herb Brooks ~
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
~By Andre Agassi ~
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~By John Tyndall ~
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 ~
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
~By Cesare Pavese ~
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 ~
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
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 ~
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
~By J. P. Donleavy ~
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
~By James Gates Percival ~
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 ~
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
~By David O. Russell ~
As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
~By Brad Bird ~
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
~By Jim Morrison ~
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
~By Tim Conway ~
Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
~By Leon Foucault ~
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 ~
A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
~By Steve Vai ~
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
~By Michael Johnson ~
The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
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