Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren`s grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and kn...
Plato
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don`t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Andrew Adams
We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn`t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do m...
Jeanette Winterson
’I`d have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn`t for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .`
Terry Pratchett
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they`ve sold their papers and got big circulation`s, they say, `Look at what we`ve done for you.`
John Lennon
I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that`s really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the ...
Jon Stewart
Nicole, Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I`d try and embarrass her and she would pretend to be shocked. I always played up on that. It was a real elder sister-younger brother relationship.
Ewan McGregor
When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman`s Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it. No one had any idea that I was going to pull my car around the co...
Danny Bonaduce
[On performing naked on-camera] "I`m much more confident in front of a camera, hidden by a character, enhanced by makeup, so I can go much further than I can in real life. Being naked is quite a natural thing, but it`s more the sexual situations. Sexual a...
Ludivine Sagnier
(On being recognized for his Friends episodes) I did Friends usually always while I was doing another movie. I would literally have to get off the set and rush to Warner Bros. and look at the script and have to do it right there in front of an audience. I...
Giovanni Ribisi
Sometimes people of success are the loneliests ones, they are in front of the TV with the remote control in their hand and the phone never rings...
Raoul Bova
I admit it: I`m a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I`m a closet Amberholic. Please help me!
Amber Benson
In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you ... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you`re the hake.
Alejandro Amenabar
[on winning the Academy Award for The Hours (2002)] And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I`m going to make my daughter proud.
Nicole Kidman
Do not be afraid, ever, of approaching the talent you want in your film. Because actors at any level want to be in front of the camera, that`s what we`re built to do. Actors want to act. So, if we`re free, we have the time, and you have a project that is ...
Doug Jones
The leader follows in front
Proverb
