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(on fellow "flapper" actress Clara Bow) I liked Clara. A very warm, sweet, generous girl. What great potential! But she wasn`t a finisher. Her mind was like a sponge, but she didn`t have the concentration or ability to see it through. She was quite ingenuous. People would go into shock over her salty language.

- Colleen Moore

"A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that`s frightful behaviour."

- Shirley Manson

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

- Orlando Bloom

I just love that one and always loved the moment where Daniel bows to Miyagi after he puts him to sleep, ... That was John Avildsen saying, `Before you leave, just turn and bow to him.` It`s just a genuine organic great moment that just sort of came up on the day.

- Ralph Macchio

Clara Bow`s an interesting actress because back then she was real honest. She was this Brooklyn girl who didn`t have a whole lot of class, she`d come right out and say what she wanted. And she ended up leaving Hollywood when she was 26 because all of that had transpired. She was fun, she was just who she was and she got badly criticized for that. When she arrived out here she was like the Madonna of the Twenties: people started dressing like her and doing their hair like her and the whole bit. But then the studios did what they do even now, they started making formula movies - the It (1927) girl pictures - and never allowed her to do anything else. - on silent-screen actress Clara Bow

- Sherilyn Fenn

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn`t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that`ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

- Eric Clapton

I was looking at retirement a couple of fights ago, but then was thinking `shall I have one more fight?` That`s the drug of the sport, there`s always one more fight. There has to be a time when I can gracefully bow out. If I don`t feel the same hunger as I once did then I definitely shouldn`t box any more.

- Lennox Lewis

(Almost) everybody is of age, ... When the Scream Tour started we were 14 or 15. Bow (Wow) was, like, 13. It`s become a really mature, young adult tour.

- Omarion Grandberry

Bow down before the one you serve, you`re going to get what you deserve.

- Trent Reznor

In 1985 he told the Guardian newspaper that he hoped by the end of his life to have put everything in order -- "a kind of little bow, tied on life. And I can see myself drifting off into eternity, or nothing, or whatever it may be, with all sorts of bits of loose string hanging out of my pocket. Why didn`t I say this or do that, or why didn`t I reconcile myself with someone? Or make sure that someone whom I like was all right in every way, either financially or, I don`t know..."

- Alec Guinness

It was an amazing performance because it`s not easy to sit through a long rain delay and have the same intensity. It`s not easy to start and stop, and that`s what Matt did successfully. When you start and stop, it`s easy to bow out of the situation, but he didn`t do it. And he was rewarded for it.

- Gabe Kapler

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don`t all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

- Roger Daltrey

(on Laurence Olivier) If you had to worship something mortal on Earth, I would go and bow twice a day to wherever Olivier was standing.

- Sammy Davis Jr.

I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on `Want One` is one of the most astonishing things that has come out in years. And I wanted to work with his scope. He has more than one string in his bow.

- David Gray

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

- Allen Ginsberg

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

- Richard Wright

Mr Bronson was a dinosaur and when we were discussing what he would wear, I felt that he would always be smartly dressed and thought that a bow-tie would finish off the ensemble.

- Michael Sheard

We realized we needed to have a permanent center. We were racking up easily about 200 miles driving from Bow to Blaine and out to Sumas.

- Christine Smith

He decided to cock the bow back and point it at the officers like he was going to shoot them.

- Keith Jones

(The style dates back to the mid-19th century, when) accessories were a sign of wealth, ... you can add a bow to a dress or jeans and personalize a look easily and cheaply.

- Kevin Jones

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

- Bill Moyers

We did struggle on our pitching. They`re actually veteran pitchers. I don`t know. It`s our third ball game, and they just have to bow up and play with us. That was a good bunch of girls. They fielded the ball well.

- Dana Smith

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

- Adam Loewen

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

- Alan Sorensen

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

- Alex Zisson

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

- Amando Tetangco

It also leads to bowing, which is a violation of God`s law. The faithful bow to no one but God.

- Asa Hutchinson

Early on in his career that (getting forward) was his (Keane`s) forte. He`s just shown he`s got more strings to his bow than just sitting in there. I say, `go on, on you go`. He was full of energy, as was the whole team.

- Augie Ghio

High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears, to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from place to place.

- Austin Osman Spare

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason`s self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here

- Avery Sheets

If you bow at all, bow low.

- Andy Dingley

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

- Carl T. Rowan

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

- Publius Syrus