Act Quotes
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
Samuel Alexander -
For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
Vanilla Ice
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
Dalton Trumbo -
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke -
Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
Ada Yonath -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.
R. C. Sproul -
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
Sally Hawkins -
The earliest we're going to see significant impact from the storm appears to be Friday afternoon, but people should not wait, ... It's time to act.
Craig Fugate -
Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
Harrison Ford -
Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
Gavin Newsom -
Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.
Lao Tzu
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
J. D. Salinger -
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
Lev Vygotsky -
When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Olga Kurylenko -
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson -
You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
Irene Dunne
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso -
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
Samuel Alexander -
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin -
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
Victoria Pendleton