July 30, 2011

Famous quote by Macaulay Culkin

I don't even get an allowance.

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Renee Zellweger quotes

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'

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July 29, 2011

Famous quote by Charles Dibdin

Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking
And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

July 28, 2011

Quote by Alfonso X

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.

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Famous quote by Max Baucus

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

July 27, 2011

John Arbuthnot quotes

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's a sign our knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and when a Mathematical Reasoning can be had it's as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

July 26, 2011

Quotes by Marie de Vichy-Chamrond

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.

The first step is the hardest.

July 23, 2011

Alan Davies quotations

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

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July 21, 2011

Top 5 quotes by Robert Bresson

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

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Alec Waugh quotations

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

July 20, 2011

Quote by James Caan

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July 19, 2011

George Galloway quotes

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

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July 18, 2011

Al Unser quotes

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.

Winning in my business is everything.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.

If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

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July 17, 2011

Lindsay Davenport quotations

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

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July 11, 2011

Amy Tan quotes

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

July 08, 2011

Famous quote by Rolf Hochhuth

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

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July 04, 2011

Famous quote by John Lydon

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy.

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July 02, 2011

M. Emmet Walsh quotes

I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

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Cleveland Abbe quotes

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.