Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes de Mille

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

If we had done better at home, we wouldn't have been in such an anxious, agonizing situation.

When they got two more runs to put us down six, I think we got down a little bit. The next thing you know, it was a slow and agonizing death.

People in the community are agonizing and asking, 'What could we have done to prevent this?' ... We've been working very hard over the past four to five years liaising with the authorities . . . with various agencies organizing and supervising youth activities. And still this has happened.

John Burdett

'Shun security,' I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. 'Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isn't agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.'

Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

Elbert Hubbard

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Daniel Rodriguez

The deceased victims' deaths were slow and agonizing and, in essence, occurred in ever-increasing stages of mental anguish and physical pain.

Countee Cullen

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Tom Brokaw

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

Leslie Howard

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.

Kenneth Turan

This film for sure will get an Oscar nomination for Paltrow. It might even win it for her again. This is a very intensely dramatic film. It's a really agonizing role.

Every journalist in Europe is agonizing over this issue. This is not about intimidation. It's a complex debate about informing readers and causing offense unnecessarily.

Viktor Korchnoi

At one point, after having already become a Grandmaster and champion of the USSR,I suddenly realized that I am heading for a dead end... I had to start everything over. But how hard and agonizing it is when you're no longer 16, but twice that age!

Without a doubt, the basketball scandal (of 2003 under then-head coach Dave Bliss) was the most trying time. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It was agonizing, and the most agonizing part was the effect it had on the families.

Dorothy Day

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

While so many children are agonizing through this tragedy, ... those who suffered through the nightmare in the Superdome draw strongly on our compassion.

Clint Hurdle

We have been beaten and had agonizing losses and we've lost games every way imaginable for way too long to get overconfident. We knew we couldn't dig a hole like last year. You know where that's going to get you, in any sport. So to come out clean and efficient is obviously a step in the right direction.

Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Tom Shales

In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.

Richelle Mead

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Taylor Caldwell

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Nick Hornby

I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.

Jared Diamond

The Norse held values that would not allow them to deal with... pagans and certainly would not let them eat fish and hunt ringed seals the way these pagans did. So here is a case where the values that sustained them for 450 years ultimately killed them. The United States faces similar agonizing reappraisals today.

Uwe Reinhardt

It's like a roulette wheel you bet on in Las Vegas. It's an agonizing decision.

Max Brooks

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Mort Sahl

My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.

John Rosemond

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.