Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Brantley

Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible for them.

Mahesh Babu

When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

Will Chase

Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.

Theodore Bikel

You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits.

Steve Sternberg

It's not that the broadcasters struck out. There was just so much reality that there were more flops than successes.

Carlos Fuentes

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Castaneda

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Carlos Castaneda

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Carlos Castaneda

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Carlos Castaneda

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Carl Bernstein

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

C. S. Lewis

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

C. S. Lewis

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.