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Sam Walter Foss

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J.R.R. TOLKIEN Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables" to you: "At the end of your shif...
TAMORA PIERCE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, toni...
MADELINE MILLER Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I wou...
MADELINE MILLER It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.
MADELINE MILLER What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
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SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
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SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
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SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
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SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
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SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t...
SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo...
SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized.
SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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SAM KEAN I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
SAM HUNTINGTON You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
SAM HUNTINGTON My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
SAM HUNTINGTON In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t...
SAM HUNTINGTON I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
SAM HUNTINGTON I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
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