I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the…

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

— Olivia Wilde

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

— Joan of Arc

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely…

— Richard Powers

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ...…

— Eileen Collins

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

— Carol Higgins Clark

I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

— William Shakespeare

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

— Winston Churchill

We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean…

— Henry Ford II

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…

— Gertrude Stein

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire…

— Paul von Hindenburg

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage