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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends
ORSON WELLES I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses a...
SKEET ULRICH I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake nos...
SPENCER TRACY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The basic and essential human is the woman
ORSON WELLES best friends are always going to pick you up when your down, make you happy when your sad, and have ...
ANISA M Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
XAVIER DOLAN It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never unde...
MARK RYDELL I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
BRADY CORBET I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' ...
CLAIRE DANES I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles a...
JOHN LOGAN Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow.....
KEVIN SPACEY Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine i...
CHRISTIAN MCKAY When something serious happens in your life, something bad comes out of it but also something good. ...
ANGIE KARAN When you are down to nothing, God and the universe are always up to something!!! Be strong in your f...
ANGIE KARAN If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative....
HAROLD PRINCE You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something...
LIANE MORIARTY I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you'r...
ZAYN MALIK I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the thing...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...
WALKER PERCY Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a pr...
ORSON WELLES I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson W...
FRANK MILLER If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too la...
DEYTH BANGER There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their...
JOHN BERCOW Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm on...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio an...
MANNY FARBER You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a l...
ERIC ANDRE Best friends are givers of all, because the ocean of life demands a help when nobody turns up
FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You are the architect of your life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA They've always been close games, because usually both of us are near the top of the conference, and ...
DAVID MCGINNIS Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne...
GARY F EVANS... When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it...
SUZANNE SOMERS It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't s...
EARTHA KITT Friends are supposed to make themselves available when you are down. When they don't, then it is an ...
JECON B. NADELA And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything thr...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL When you do something you're never done before, no matter how poorly it turns out, you're on your wa...
ALAN LAKEIN Usually it's when your guard is down that you find yourself saying the most dick sentences of your l...
JESSE ANDREWS When something is dirty you wash it. That's what my mum always said.
Yet...
When you have ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Special teams (are) so key in the new NHL. It's like 80 percent of the game. That always turns the m...
KYLE WANVIG Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; t...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are alw...
FULTON J. SHEEN Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely; they are awar...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, o...
PATRICK MACNEE Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when the...
EMMANUELLE BEART It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down tim...
J.K. ROWLING It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever ...
IGOR ELISEEV My favorite nights out are the most random ones - when they start at a bowling alley and end up some...
SARA SAMPAIO There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they'r...
C. JOYBELL C. It never stops. He brings everybody up. When guys are down, he is the first one to put a smile on yo...
DANILO PINNOCK I think about how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your le...
JOHN GREEN When your down people always expect you to look down. if not they think everything is Ok when it's f...
LILLIAN L.ELIE When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down...
ALAN G. POINDEXTER It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down tim...
J.K. ROWLING Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just some...
SARAH DESSEN I usually come in for work. All the parties are for the fans. When the players go it is no fun and i...
JOE MONTANA The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant oth...
ELLEN POMPEO You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I always try to cheer myself up by singing when I get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my v...
ANIMALS Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point the...
SHANNON L. ALDER If you are single there is always one thing you should take out with you on a Saturday night... your...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER It's a rush. When they say, 'Down, set, hut!' you feel it inside. You know something's going to happ...
LISA WATERS The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes...
MEG CABOT If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is so...
LEONTYNE PRICE When you work on something and you do it to the best of your ability and you put it out there...you ...
CHRIS GILL When you become something. EGO wants to be more smarter than you. To be MORE than something always i...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventur...
CESAR MILLAN When your backs are up against the wall, you can stay there and let the other teams keep stomping yo...
TOM BRADY I'm not straight up and down. I have curves.
ERIKA CHRISTENSEN The real friends are out there on you won, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren't the...
DEYTH BANGER My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will res...
CHARLES GRANT The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, ...
STEPHEN KING I have friends who definitely sort of turn up their noses at what they consider to be the hokiness o...
MICHAEL DAVIES The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery ...
H. L. MENCKEN You usually judge people according to your standards. Your worst expectations of someone are usually...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA Your friends are one of the factors that make YOU. So chose your friends wisely. When you chose, the...
CLYDE A. JOHNSON Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religio...
TOM SHALES And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
ANNE LAMOTT The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery ...
H. L. MENCKEN The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery ...
H.L. MENCKEN I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyag...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS It turns out that the market worked out, ... One of the movers, for instance, said they would move a...
BILL REED When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at mys...
JOAN COLLINS To go out there with your best friends and have your guys beat up on their guys is a special time. I...
COLIN MAILLOUX If you can get up when you are down, you don’t notice that everyone around you was down, for it is...
VIKRANT PARSAI Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
R.J. PALACIO When you are down to nothing, God is up to somethng. It is up to you to reach out to find what God i...
ROBERT SCHULER I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspi...
TAYLOR HANSON A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking ...
C.S. LEWIS In basketball it usually comes down to one shot, and in golf it usually comes down to one putt, ... ...
ERIC LINDQUIST You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA People who are for things don't usually go out and say something, it's usually people that are again...
EVE TIDWELL Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
CRISS JAMI She couldn't get that a wanted a car that was a little broken. When something starts out perfect, it...
CHELSEA SEDOTI When you get a bill that is more than twice what it usually is then you have to figure something is ...
CLIFF BRONSTAD

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ORSON PRATT The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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ORSON PRATT The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we...
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ORSON PRATT A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never...
ORSON PRATT God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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ORSON PRATT God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two place...
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ORSON PRATT To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.
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ORSON BEAN Instead, it relies on skewed descriptions of the results of the Commission's 2000 Survey and studies...
ORSON SWINDLE We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
JEANNE KOHL-WELLES I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
ORSON SCOTT CARD One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I listen to music constantly while writing.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citize...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
ORSON SCOTT CARD I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values tha...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inve...
ORSON SCOTT CARD But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You who speak languages, you are such liars.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a...
ORSON SCOTT CARD God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
ORSON SCOTT CARD There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to...
ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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ORSON F. WHITNEY Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
ORSON F. WHITNEY Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
ORSON F. WHITNEY Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his serv...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness a...
ORSON F. WHITNEY You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreci...
ORSON F. WHITNEY The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The...
ORSON F. WHITNEY Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liber...
ORSON F. WHITNEY No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of su...
ORSON F. WHITNEY The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a cou...
ORSON SCOTT CARD In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You made them hate me." Said Ender
"So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kis...
ORSON SCOTT CARD No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the...
ORSON F. WHITNEY I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w...
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