Moment Quotes

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in getting married.

~ Rob Lowe

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

~ Nadia Comaneci

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

~ George B. Mcclellan

When you're in the heat of the moment, you need guys you can trust and who have been there for you.

~ Bradley Wiggins

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

~ Jane Pauley

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

~ David Hockney

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

~ Mary Mcdonnell

Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.

~ Aleksey Igudesman

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

~ Matthew Lillard

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks being funny and interesting lasts longer.

~ Kelly Ripa

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

~ Dwayne Johnson

Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

~ Naomi Watts

The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.

~ Kim Swift

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

~ Sylvie Meis

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

~ Thomas Jefferson

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

~ Frank Auerbach

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

~ Camille Paglia

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

~ Emmet Fox

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

~ R. A. Butler

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

~ Henri Nouwen

Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.

~ Bill Toomey

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

~ Jonathan Kozol

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

~ Andy Rooney

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

~ Patrick Stewart

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

~ Kristen Schaal

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

~ Ama Ata Aidoo

In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

~ Chris Milk

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

~ Glen Hansard

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

~ Jeremy Stoppelman

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

~ Thomas Jefferson

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

~ Barbara Tuchman

I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.

~ Whitney Wolfe

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

~ Michael Schumacher

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

~ Tom Felton

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada.

~ Ryan Gosling

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

We still see that people don't really realize that electric cars are here right now. And when we show up with an actual vehicle, and you see it drive away under its own power, it's still kind of a jaw-dropping moment for a lot of people.

~ Franz Von Holzhausen

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

~ Paulo Coelho