“ For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.). ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 656
“ Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet. ”
- Wole Soyinka- Copy
- 2K
“ Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing. ”
- Guy Pearce- Copy
- 527
“ However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. ”
- Muriel Rukeyser- Copy
- 2.6K
“ What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy. ”
- Tom Cruise- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The other day I had a running scene, and I had two hours until my next scene. Instead of going back to the trailer, I kept on running for an hour. ”
- Mia Maestro- Copy
- 3K
“ When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying. ”
- Walter Murch- Copy
- 2.4K
“ When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ”
- Stephen Root- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. ”
- Vincent D’Onofrio- Copy
- 900
“ We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity. ”
- Edwin Markham- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived. ”
- Elizabeth Jenkins- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. ”
- Martin Cruz Smith- Copy
- 1.5K
“ How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 671
“ As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ”
- John Adams- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3.7K
“ No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 166
“ Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ”
- Georg Hegel- Copy
- 969
“ Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. ”
- Marion Davies- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature, is inconstancy. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
- 3.9K
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