Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.
The actor's dream is to come in knowing that you're only supposed to do one episode and then come back because people liked it.
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.
Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's actually not funny.
There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.
Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.
I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.
Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
A lot of guys think you're almost supposed to just get stuff but you've got to put in the work, you've got to lay the foundations.
There are a lot of people out there that don't value their family the way they are supposed to. I value mine above everything else.
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.
With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.
And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.
I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.
What rock n' roll was supposed to be about was getting loose, enjoying it, going a little crazy, and not caring how you act or dress.
Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.
If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
Veterans Affairs (VA) is a mess of a government agency and too often abuses the rights and interests of veterans it is supposed to protect.
Defensive lineman in the 3-4 isn't a glory position. He is supposed to tie up as many linemen as possible in order to free the linebackers.
Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.
No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.
I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.