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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
~By Stephan Jenkins ~
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
~By George Eliot ~
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
~By Corita Kent ~
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
~By Robert Towne ~
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 ~
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
~By John Tyndall ~
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
~By Gioachino Rossini ~
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 ~
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
~By Bill Condon ~
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 ~
Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.
~By Dick Van Dyke ~
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 ~
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 ~
It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
~By Carlton Fisk ~
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 ~
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
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 ~
There are no ordinary moments.
~By Dan Millman ~
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 ~
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
~By Neil Simon ~
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 ~
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 ~
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
~By Max Frisch ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
~By Michael Bolton ~
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 ~
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 ~
What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
~By William Scranton ~
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
~By Deborah Cox ~
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 ~
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
~By Annie Lennox ~
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 ~
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 ~
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
~By Alfred Eisenstaedt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
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 ~
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 ~
I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments.
~By Adam Savage ~
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
~By Tony Curtis ~
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
~By Jules Renard ~
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
~By Richard Bach ~
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
~By Al Boliska ~
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
~By Bill Laswell ~
You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.
~By Denzel Washington ~
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
~By Fran Drescher ~
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 ~
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
~By Marcel Marceau ~
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~By Richard Bach ~
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 ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
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 ~
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
I am always living very good moments.
~By Jose Carreras ~
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 ~
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
~By John Singleton ~
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 ~
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
~By Victoria Secunda ~
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 ~
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 ~
Many people experience Gethsemane moments.
~By Arthur Middleton ~
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
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 ~
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
~By Michael Palin ~
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