People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
~By Nelson A. Miles ~
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
~By Mark Rylance ~
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
~By Josh Silver ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
~By George Saunders ~
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 ~
Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
~By Marion Milner ~
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 ~
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
~By Anita Brookner ~
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
~By Max Frisch ~
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.
~By Richard Lester ~
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 ~
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
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 ~
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
~By Rita Dove ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
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 ~
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
~By Robert Hass ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
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 ~
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
~By Bill Condon ~
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
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 ~
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
~By Denzel Washington ~
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
~By Al Boliska ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.
~By Bryan Ferry ~
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 had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
~By Jessica Lange ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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 ~
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 ~
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
~By Robert M. Parker, Jr. ~
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
~By Brad Paisley ~
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
~By J. P. Donleavy ~
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
~By Tony Benn ~
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
~By Eric Cantona ~
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
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 ~
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
~By Jean Rostand ~
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
~By Kate Winslet ~
These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
~By John Dillinger ~
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
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 ~
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 ~
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
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 ~
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 ~
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I am always living very good moments.
~By Jose Carreras ~
There are no ordinary moments.
~By Dan Millman ~
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
~By Eugene Kennedy ~
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 ~
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
~By Barbara Walters ~
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