All Quotes

Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
‐‐ David Low

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
‐‐ Lord Mountbatten

CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
‐‐ Lactantius

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!
‐‐ Gerard Way

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
‐‐ Martha Plimpton

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco - addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine.
‐‐ Tom Frieden

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Cincinnati has one of the most diverse animal collections in the world, with more than 500 species represented. They also have a really good insect exhibit.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
‐‐ Joe Baca

Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
‐‐ Kuno Becker

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.'
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.
‐‐ Lily James

Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why I'm an actress.
‐‐ Julie Gayet

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
‐‐ Bruno Dumont

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
‐‐ Jacques Delors

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
‐‐ Abbas Kiarostami

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
‐‐ Richard King

Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
‐‐ Shah Rukh Khan

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
‐‐ David Lynch

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.
‐‐ Shohreh Aghdashloo

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
‐‐ Leos Carax

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was writing a play about Howard Hughes, I could have him give a monologue about how he's terrified to touch a doorknob. But on screen, you know, working with Marty Scorsese in 'The Aviator,' that became the series of images that told a story.
‐‐ John Logan

Cinema is a world of imagination.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
‐‐ Vidya Balan

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
‐‐ Bruno Dumont

Cinema is an art form.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
‐‐ Denis Villeneuve

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu