Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Dave Foley

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

Cary Fukunaga

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

Lorraine Toussaint

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Lisa Cholodenko

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

Lisa Cholodenko

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

Romola Garai

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Marc Cherry

There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.

Terri Bushman

We still won't have had the whole cast practice together up until three weeks before production.

Brian Eno

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Damien Hirst

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Cornelia Funke

Words are immortal - Elinor

Atharva Veda

We are birds, O camel-like mind; the Lord, the Immortal Primal Being, is the tree.

William Shakespeare

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

Henry Vaughan

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Livy

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Billy Collins

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Chinua Achebe

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

Diana Gabaldon

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Anthea Turner

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Peter Schiff

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Madchen Amick

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.