Ryosuke Miura Quotes

#1. TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

Kitty Carlisle

#2. Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Henry Watson Fowler

#3. I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Jim McKelvey

#4. Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Donald Kagan

#5. He says that he saw you first. That by right, you are his captive. He says that Buffalo Run really has no right to you, that he has pampered you, that he has scorned the Comanche ways. He says that you should be his slave, and that he intends to take you.

Heather Graham

#6. On 'B&B,' we shoot so fast and eight episodes a week, so we have to always be on our A-game. There's really no time to make certain adjustments. We usually shoot a scene in one take, maybe two or three only if needed.

Texas Battle

#7. If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him. Come with me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Chris Elliott

#9. As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.

George Clooney

#10. Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Gail Collins

#11. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Barry O'Farrell

#13. There are no secrets.

John McAfee