I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it’s true, is he’s so dry. When he’s serious, I think he’s joking; when he’s joking, I think he’s serious. – Willem Dafoe
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. – Simone Weil
Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields. – Willard Scott
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. – Vance Havner
Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows. – Scott Bakula
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. – Sophocles
The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try. – Sarah Vowell
The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he’d cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry. – Tommy Bond
I travel to Chicago a lot. And I’ve followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines. – Sal Albanese
We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. – Sidney Blumenthal
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk. – Steven Wright
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg – there’s always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him. – Theophilus London
My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew. – Taryn Manning
We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. – Sophocles
I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can’t write about other work done in the press? – Sydney Schanberg
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you’d like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn’t, or couldn’t, do. – Thomas Perry
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. – Walter Martin
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed. – Thomas Mallon
I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? – Valerie Bertinelli
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. – Yasser Arafat
I wouldn’t call him a slave. I don’t whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. – Shannon Elizabeth
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader’s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. – William Collins
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. – Werner Herzog
He ‘s ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn’t succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it’s a great excuse. – Terence Fisher
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel. – Zig Ziglar
I was raised Catholic, and I knew of Him and certainly what He did, but I never truly experienced knowing Him. – Shawn Michaels