I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
Greta Garbo

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
Eric Cantona

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie Schwartz

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
Billie Joe Armstrong

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
Sophocles

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
Orlando Bloom

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Orlando Bloom

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
Orlando Bloom

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Orlando Bloom

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Elliott Smith

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
Elliott Smith

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.
Paul Gascoigne

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
Julie Christie