I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. ~By Ryan Gosling ~
I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now. ~By Sarah Zettel ~
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ~By Edmund Husserl ~
The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now. ~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do. ~By Jesse James Garrett ~
Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging. ~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know? ~By Billy Preston ~
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. ~By Vanna White ~
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ~By Charles Lindbergh ~
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ~By Luis Bunuel ~
I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain. ~By Gisele Bundchen ~
Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. ~By Henry W. Kendall ~
I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. ~By Miriam Makeba ~
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~By Joe Garagiola ~
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. ~By Steve Harvey ~
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like. ~By Meg White ~
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel? ~By Adam Savage ~
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about. ~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known. ~By Penn Jillette ~
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. ~By Ginger Baker ~
With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago. ~By Dougray Scott ~
The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled. ~By Jackie Collins ~
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ~By John Le Carre ~
Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it. ~By David Carradine ~
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ~By William Barclay ~
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~By R. A. Salvatore ~
I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real. ~By Steve Forbert ~
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~By Bram Stoker ~
We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets. ~By David Letterman ~
You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy. ~By Rose Byrne ~
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ~By Jean M. Auel ~
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look. ~By Dan Quayle ~
You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions. ~By Herbert Prochnow ~
You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. ~By Joni Mitchell ~
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! ~By Emma Watson ~
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. ~By William Westmoreland ~
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God. ~By Robert Grosseteste ~
You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying. ~By Lorraine Bracco ~
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ~By Gary Oldman ~
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. ~By Tillie Olsen ~
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well. ~By Lord Mountbatten ~
In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase. ~By Ed Harris ~
I think there's a knowingness in my face. ~By Rebecca De Mornay ~
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying. ~By Ornette Coleman ~
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. ~By Charles W. Pickering ~
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. ~By Barbara Walters ~
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. ~By Harry S. Truman ~
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president. ~By Lincoln Chafee ~
I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? ~By George Wald ~
It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am. ~By Danny Elfman ~
It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent. ~By John Dykstra ~
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations. ~By Jock Sturges ~
If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. ~By Edward W. Howe ~
I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others. ~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now. ~By Frank Lampard ~
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God. ~By John Jewel ~
Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped. ~By Ryunosuke Satoro ~
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ~By Charles Lyell ~
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. ~By Boris Becker ~
I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can. ~By Oliver Stone ~
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain. ~By Casey Stengel ~
I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music. ~By Merle Haggard ~
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. ~By Anne Hutchinson ~
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. ~By John Agyekum Kufuor ~
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. ~By Pope Paul VI ~
The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is. ~By Steve Buscemi ~
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. ~By Andrew Jackson ~
Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue. ~By Walter Martin ~
Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. ~By Geoff Downes ~
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words? ~By Martin Freeman ~
We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture. ~By Lisa Kudrow ~
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan. ~By Norman Granz ~
You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine. ~By Cate Blanchett ~
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. ~By Billy Eckstine ~
Now is the time for all good men to run like hell. ~By Craig Bruce ~
My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on. ~By Mandy Patinkin ~
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. ~By William Ellery Channing ~
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. ~By Tavis Smiley ~
The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country. ~By George B. McClellan ~
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me. ~By Arthur Wellesley ~
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~By John Wilmot ~
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. ~By Sydney Madwed ~
I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' ~By Jim Kolbe ~
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me. ~By Mariah Carey ~
Now I know what it's like to be a rock star. No, I didn't sleep with 5 groupies at once. But I was interviewed about 45 times in 5 days in 3 cities. ~By Tony Visconti ~
And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster. ~By Calista Flockhart ~
I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. ~By Terry Prachett ~
I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer. ~By Max Weinberg ~
I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it. ~By Janet Jackson ~
You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful. ~By Earl Scruggs ~
So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer. ~By Mel Torme ~
I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference. ~By Kristin Hersh ~
I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music. ~By Ralph Stanley ~
My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now. ~By Kelly Preston ~
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there. ~By Henry Vaughan ~
You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control. ~By Jeff Gordon ~
I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine. ~By Lil' Kim ~
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. ~By Tom T. Hall ~
I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this. ~By Nia Long ~
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