Moments Quotes

If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

As far as a defining moment, that was a hugely successful and very busy time for me. 1975, 1976, 1977 - that whole time frame.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

I don’t ever want to be in a hurry. I want to enjoy the moments.

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Share your stories of your worst moments as well as your best. Let your sisters know their problems are not unique and they are not alone.

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

Moments don't last unless we do something with them.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.

I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.

It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.