All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant`s revolving door.
Albert Camus
For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are
Dr. Carl Sagan
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson
(On the infamous "Who Shot J.R?" episode): "Before that fateful shot rang out, I was merely bemused by the success of the character. Villainy could be fun, and that`s how I played it. And if it worked. I mean I couldn`t go down to the corner to pick up my...
Larry Hagman
I love playing, and I love getting lost in the moment. I like entertaining, and to me it`s a huge lot of tongue-in-cheek. The swagger is just rock-star stuff. You`re playing a star, and it`s totally fun. You know, it`s scary. Staying right on the corner o...
Keith Urban
At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students...
Werner Herzog
[on why he loves "The Daily Show" (1996)]: It saves me from sitting at home in my underwear screaming at the television set. If I didn`t do this show I`d be the crazy guy at the bar sitting at the corner screaming "He doesn`t know shit about what he`s tal...
Jon Stewart
My mom and I lived at Hollywood and Western, a drug-dealer and prostitute corner. It was pretty terrifying. I got beat up a lot. I saw people have sex in the alleys. I remember I was 5 years old, and this guy with a trench coat, needles and crack cornered...
Leonardo DiCaprio
My nightmare in life, my absolute fundamental, overwhelming, egregious nightmare, is Bill Gates` vision of the future, where there will be a video camera on every corner and every conversation will be recorded. Man, I`d rather put a pitchfork in my eyes t...
James Woods
I`m definitely no Bridget Jones. I don`t believe in that whole `oh there are no decent men out there` thing. Get real girls- there are loads of gorgeous guys on every street cornerEva Longoria
[Carmel, CA, June 1990]: You may think this a little mystical, and I`ve said it many times before, but I believe there was a Divine Plan to place this great continent here between the two oceans to be found by peoples from every corner of the earth. I bel...
Ronald Reagan
You put Genesis over there in a corner with Yes, ELP, Moody Blues and the Floyd (Pink Floyd) because that`s the period we happened to come up in. I don`t like any of those groups - so it angers me and frustrates me when we get compared to them.
Phil Collins
You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I`m certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don`t get brain-damaged before I get there.
Rose McGowan
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you`re not happy then that`s probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it. I`m trying to work out what I have b...
James Purefoy
Last year I went to the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars and I stood in the corner and had a lot of champagne. It`s very, very scary.
Keira Knightley
I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you from the bottom of my heart. I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I a...
Michael Jackson
It`s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we`re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
Neil Gaiman
(On skateboarding injuries) I have scars on my knees from smashing into the corner of cement benches. I have scars on my pelvis from jumping off my board and sliding like Superman down a hill. One time I snapped my wrist in half and had to get a cast on m...
Jason Lee
On Steven Seagal, with whom she worked with on the movie Out for Justice (1991): "His trailer is around the corner from mine on the Warner Bros. lot, and I was walking by recently and he said, `Margulies, come over here and show me some respect!` He`s not...
Julianna Margulies
To be deemed to be OK, to be part of the culture, that`s the kiss of death. When I`m pushing against something it helps me define what I believe. I`ve always been led to see what`s beyond, what`s round the corner. The world tries to say that this is what ...
Terry Gilliam
I don`t know what I am doing from one moment to the next. I like that not knowing because it`s always a surprise. You don`t know what`s around the corner, you know what role am I going to play next and who am I going to be working with. It`s like opening ...
Barbara Eden
You could heave a brick out of the window and hit ten actors who could play my parts. I just happened to be on the right corner at the right time.
Boris Karloff
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant`s revolving door.
Albert Camus
