Far Quotes

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.