Without Quotes

"People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway"

Tim Vine, Comedian

"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically"

Phil Crosby, Author

"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers"

May Sarton, Poet

"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without"

Helena Christensen, Model

"In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it"

Tara Strong, Actress

"I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Without the ball, you can't win"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions"

Ellis Peters, Author

"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man"

James Harrington, Philosopher

"Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"Without Elvis none of us could have made it"

Buddy Holly, Musician

"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer"

Xenophon, Soldier

"I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Without love in you life, you have nothing"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Life! Can't live with it, can't live without it"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage"

Frank Capra, Director

"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives"

Pericles, Statesman

"Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry"

Bob Filner, Politician

"Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck"

Thomas More, Author

"This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven"

Thomas More, Author

"The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"Is a faith without action a sincere faith?"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril"

Xenophon, Soldier

"Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential"

Michael Burgess, Congressman