Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Isaac Brock

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Garry Hynes

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

George Allen

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans.

Donald Trump

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Vivek Wadhwa

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Wynton Marsalis

I became a man in New York. New York made me the musician that I am and the person that I am, so it's impossible for me to say I regret having lived there.

Idina Menzel

If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

Warren Farrell

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

Felicity Kendal

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

Frank Lowy

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Bertrand Russell

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

Jamil Dakwar

The ACLU is concerned about losing the bedrock of the U.S. system. Once you start to strip ... habeas corpus rights and the independence of the judiciary, it is a slippery slope, leaving the executive branch with excessive power.

Robert Bindschadler

The Antarctic Mosaic shows a lot of very subtle changes in the slope of the terrain that you cannot see from the ground. These subtle variations are important because they tell us the direction the ice is flowing now and they indicate where it has gone in the past. The surface roughness also tells us about the bed underneath the ice and whether the ice is sliding over the bed or frozen to it.

Brendan Flanagan

That was the icing on the cake so I could go to bed knowing I was under weight.

Carolyn Jennings

We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.

Colin Angle

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

Paul Bello

We have people eating things they never heard of before.

John Mulaney

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

Tom Robbins

Whining's unattractive, even when your whine sounds like Kenneth Branagh eating frozen strawberries with a silver fork.

Craig Smith

I think more of us are interested in eating better.

Richard Gough

I think the stretching before training and the match, has helped me. As well as being sensible with my eating and drinking.

Gretchen Rubin

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrow my limitations. One day, I'd stop twisting my hair, and wearing running shoes all the time, and eating exactly the same food every day. I'd remember my friends' birthdays, I'd learn Photoshop, I wouldn't let my daughter watch TV during breakfast. I'd read Shakespeare.

David Gay

We have not stopped eating fish in my family.

Rich Harden

I was throwing up all day Tuesday and Wednesday. I've been eating normally the past three days. Now I can finally get into my regular routine of long toss, side work and lifting.

Yolanda Adams

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

Idina Menzel

I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.

Gail Carriger

When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

S. Truett Cathy

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

Bee Wilson

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Vidya Balan

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Skip Snow

It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don't want to know. It could be scary.

Rick Hoffman

We traveled literally over 10,000 miles by car, looking at places,

Bill Turnage

He literally got it with 10 seconds to spare.

Daniel Petrocelli

He literally could have conducted an examination (by) putting a prop up there.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Vint Cerf

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

Vera Farmiga

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Warren Spector

I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Carrie Vaughn

Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.

Bill Bradley

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Joanna Schultz

I think if I got on the track and I wasn't nervous, I'd be scared.

Kenneth Billingsley

This was not unexpected. Everything we track is in the red.

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Bruce Bochy

We have to get on track with our pitching, and we think we will.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Allen Ward

We know the cabin, we know the people, we know the training and we know the job.

Corey Brewer

We told him to get some training wheels.

Mike Thibault

From that standpoint, it kind of makes for a very competitive training camp.

David Ginola

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

Alan K. Simpson

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Alan Kay

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Bernie Mac

I've been in training for stardom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.