Top 100 Sidney's Quotes
#1. My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Lee Grant
#2. He looked at her for another moment, then bent down on one knee.
Sidney's heart leapt out of her chest. "Oh my God, what are you doing?"
"Um ... getting eye-to-eye so we can talk," he said, as if this were evident.
"Oh. Right.
Julie James
#4. I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.
Douglas Adams
#5. In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it was funny, it had an important message.
Brian Herbert
#6. When the critics come around it's always too late.
Sidney Nolan
#7. Nooooooo ... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
Sylvia Sidney
#8. I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.
Sidney Crosby
#9. Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.
Sidney Hook
#10. It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.
Sidney Crosby
#11. When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Sidney Sheldon
#12. If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Sidney Poitier
#13. It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
#14. The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
Sidney Hook
#15. Our fellow Negro citizens could be summed up in something Tessie said after watching Sidney Poitier's performance in To Sir with Love, which opened a month before the riots. She said, You see, they can speak perfectly normal if they want.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#16. My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
Sidney Poitier
#17. The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.
Sidney Sheldon
#18. It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.
Sidney Crosby
#19. I know Sidney thinks I'm a brat, but I don't want to see her get hurt when this air of mystery her new husband carries comes back to bite her on the ass. That's
Nina Ford
#20. I'm always up for a game of chase, but I have a feeling that, once I catch her, she isn't the type of woman who will easily be cast aside. No, Sidney O'Neil is the kind of woman you want in your bed every night, not just once.
A.S. Teague
#22. There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.
Sidney Lumet
#23. I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
Sidney Poitier
#24. I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
T. S. Eliot
#25. But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.
Sidney Lumet
#26. Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.
Philip Sidney
#27. I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.
Charles Krauthammer
#28. It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.
Sidney Blumenthal
#29. People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.
Sidney Crosby
#30. There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
Sidney Lumet
#31. My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
Sidney Poitier
#32. Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.
Sidney Crosby
#33. I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.
Sidney Crosby
#34. Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.
Sidney Sheldon
#35. Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don't even realize you're doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, 'What's wrong today? You losing it?'
Sidney Crosby
#36. Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
Wesley Morris
#37. Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Sidney Hook
#38. He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic!
Sidney Howard
#39. I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
Vin Diesel
#40. It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.
Sidney Lumet
#41. I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.
Sidney Crosby
#42. It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because
they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.
Sidney Crosby
#43. Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
Philip Sidney
#44. Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.
Sidney Nolan
#45. On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal
#46. The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.
Wesley Morris
#47. Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right ... Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.
Sidney Jourard
#48. Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
Sidney Sheldon
#49. Hey, guys, I'm going to change," Tony announced. "You all need to get out of here for a little bit." "So fucking change. You change in the locker room all the time-what's the bug deal?" Slade asked. Tony groaned and his eyes narrowed at Slade. "Oh. Gotcha!" Slade turned and announced, "Everybody ...
Sidney Halston
#50. The human mind is not capable of comprehending or containing this world's agony.' Sidney Grice said, 'or we should all go mad.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#51. A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
Sidney Sheldon
#52. A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need.
Sidney Carroll
#53. There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures.
Sidney Sheinberg
#54. To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
Sidney Poitier
#56. Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
Philip Sidney
#57. As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.
Philip Sidney
#58. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?
Sidney Sheldon
#59. It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
Sidney Blumenthal
#60. In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.
Sidney Crosby
#62. If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
Sidney Sheinberg
#63. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
Sidney Sheldon
#64. Don't hide what you have just because people tell you it's not normal. I have known normal people ... and guess what? They are as boring as hell ...
Sidney Knight
#65. For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.
Philip Sidney
#66. It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE ...
Sidney Sheldon
#67. I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
Sidney Poitier
#69. But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.
Sidney Blumenthal
#70. Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there's about one or two seconds where you're not sure.
Sidney Crosby
#71. I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, because I actually think that everybody's the nicest guy ever, but I'm telling you: George Clooney, Roland Emmerich, Sidney Lumet - these are literally the nicest people.
Peter Jacobson
#72. Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Philip Sidney
#73. But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
Sidney Poitier
#74. There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
Philip Sidney
#75. So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier
#76. Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
Sidney Poitier
#77. O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.
Philip Sidney
#78. I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
Philip Sidney
#79. I feel like I'm stuck inside my body. Everyone's moved forward, but I've been stuck in the same place. Since I've come into all this awareness lately, the hardest part has been remembering who I used to be, the dreams that died, the years I've lost.
Sidney Halston
#80. The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. - SIDNEY HOOK
Joseph Heller
#81. To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.
Sidney Sheldon
#82. 'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.
Sidney Sheinberg
#83. Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
Sidney Crosby
#84. By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
Sidney Altman
#85. In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
Sidney Sheldon
#86. I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'
Dennis Haysbert
#87. When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
Morgan Freeman
#89. On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure ...
Christopher Hitchens
#90. I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
Sidney Poitier
#91. Whatcha do to Ricky Ricardo? Found him talking real fast in Spanish."
"Nothing." She looked at Tony. "He's just moody, and the moodier he gets, the less you can understand him.
Sidney Halston
#92. As to that Sidney, he sounds a very fine man - but bossy. It's a failing common in men.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#93. Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
Sidney Poitier
#94. Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
Sidney Poitier
#95. So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
Sidney Poitier
#96. Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
Sidney Sheldon
#97. I want to play as soon as possible, You want to play but I don't pick and choose. It's
not my job.
Sidney Crosby
#98. I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
Sidney Sheldon
#99. I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
Alaina Huffman
#100. It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.
Sidney Crosby
