Quotes About Action

Life's too important to learn new clocks, so I unplug them all and get on with the plot.

Mount Batten jumped up from his chair and ran yelling across the living room. He broke through the yellow crime scene tape across the front door like a finish line and kept on running.   Sharon

In the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball, the skydiving frogmen are supposed to be jumping into the Bahamas, but downtown Miami is in the background.

It's not how many years you've got. It's how you use them.

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.

There's no time for being babies or being scared. If you're scared, go to church.

Doing 'Magnificent Seven' was a no-brainer.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

I believe we've got to be able to make some noise to create change.

The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

Noise about carrier M&A will heat up dramatically in United States and India. The pent-up demand for action is there.

Bruce Lee was my inspiration when I was growing up and I used to watch 'Enter The Dragon.' No one could sit me still and I was non-stop hyperactive doing karate moves in the house.

It is time to stop talking about non-violence and to begin talking about force without violence.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

Chase scenes normally just have to be exciting and, you know, not a lot of emotion you need to go through. It's just about getting from A to B with as much excitement as you can.