It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Leonardo da Vinci
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking. Christopher Plummer
It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.' Neale Donald Walsch Spirit
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it. Oliver Stone
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. Colin Firth
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it. Isaac Mizrahi
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about. Omar Sharif Thinking
And I had a great time making Reloaded and Revolutions. It's great that people are coming out to see the films and I hope they enjoy them. Keanu Reeves
'The time has come' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings'. Lewis Carroll
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Adriana Lima Friendship Thinking
Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had. Dustin Hoffman
It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can. Gwyneth Paltrow
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it. Atom Egoyan Travel
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. George Lucas Present
Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. Andre Agassi
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Bill Gates
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place. Ewan McGregor
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting. Marisa Tomei