Ossie Davis Quotes
One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.Ossie Davis
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
Rachel Weisz -
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
Ian Mckellen -
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
Ion Tiriac -
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose -
A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
Kacey Musgraves
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry -
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
Tamsin Greig -
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
Karen Thompson Walker -
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
Victor Salva -
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
Aaron Levie -
I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks -
I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
Frances O'Connor -
I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
Om Puri
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Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.
Karamo Brown -
If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, we’d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They boys are who they are, and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them.
Michael Gurian -
The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.
Charles Grandison Finney -
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber -
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
David Boies -
One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.
Ossie Davis