Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Robert Walzel

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Christopher Young

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

Gian Carlo Menotti

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

Cindy Sherman

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

Rob Enderle

Typically Microsoft issues the Office copy for the Mac after they offer it for the PC. It always lags by about a year.

Patrick McCoy

Most internships are geared towards reporters writing stories. This was the first time I had seen an internship that focused on what I wanted to get into - copy editing." ()

Jonathan Todd

It didn't think of popping around the corner and popping a copy through the door.

Jojo Moyes

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.

David Foster

Just keep a paper copy of what you filed.

Kimberly Stewart

I'm sick and tired of you copying me. I don't want a clone.

Gwen Stefani

I'm stupidly crazy for old movies. I (record) them so that when I'm doing my makeup in the morning, I have them on. I can be like: 'Look at Jane Russell in that shiny leopard dress - I'm copying that.'

K.K. Paul

We have not received a copy of the order but it is understood that the high court has called for a report on various lapses that might be there in the case. Information is being gathered and we are examining reports of investigation.

Irving Stone

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.

Bernard Arnault

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Anthony Storr

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Terri Johnson

That would be the three of us. The Creative Three: myself, my sister and Jesse Kuhn, the designer.

Joseph Jarman

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Najib Razak

We have to innovate. No nation can be successful unless they are involved in innovative and creative activities,

Christina Hendricks

We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.

Baz Luhrmann

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

David H. Murdock

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

Chuck Schumer

The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year.

Regina Brett

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Carl Sagan

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

Jeff Smith

We were sold this idea because it would save money. Now we're spending a million dollars just so no one's feelings get hurt.

Peggy Venable

Using tax dollars to lobby for more tax dollars constitutes a vicious cycle, and it is fiscally, morally and ethically wrong.

Steve Thomas

With the drop in state aid, the dollars have not been there.

Chakib Khelil

Most of our trading is done with Europe. We get revenues in dollars and spend in euros.

Ronald Reagan

Who says, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want

Jim Butler

Virtually every new development and even existing project owners are looking at a residential component.

Kenneth Lay

I was fully complying with all the existing regulations and requirements on my stock transactions.

Steve Johns

It fit perfectly into the existing kitchen space.

Dave Eskelsen

We couldn't find a willing seller around the existing substation.

P. James

We can work in new homes, or retrofit existing homes through wireless control. We're making homes more fun, energy-efficient places to live. There's no one around here like us.

Laura Behrens

Plenty of them are putting their stuff out there in the hopes of being found by the existing system.

Danny Meyer

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use. There are several advantages. It's centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and it's good topography (without many hills in the area).

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Steve Boylan

The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone,

Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Gary Enis

We had opportunities tonight to make plays, make pitches, and get hits. They just got more timely hits than we did.

Bob Dean

We just couldn't get the hits together. It was that kind of game.

Matt Magee

We just couldn't get some big two-out hits with runners on.

Jeff Haney

We just couldn't get hits when we needed them. All their runs were also unearned so that is something we need to work on.

Todd Fairbourne

We couldn't get the big hits like we did yesterday.

Scott Bisbe

We couldn't get anything going. We've been getting hits when we needed them, but we didn't tonight.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations you have to come through. Because two-out hits are pretty clutch.

Dan Haren

I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they had tonight. It's nice to see them in the lineup.

Patricia Long

When it hits 10, you have to go on dialysis. Then from June to July, it went to 9.

Becky G

For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.

Ashley Tisdale

Just because I live in L.A .and I live in Hollywood doesn't mean I have to have a Hollywood life.

Tom Fuhrman

We'd sit and talk, b.s. about old times ---- about all the Hollywood celebrities and so forth.

E. B. White

To be the hottest ticket in L.A. makes you feel pretty good. Being in Hollywood, we meet so many people. We've got Snoop working out with us, Will Ferrell working out with us. All the movie stars, all the rappers, they want to be part of winning.

Alex Jones

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

Alex Jones

And I got a lot of friends in Hollywood.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Nikki Sixx

We are from Hollywood, you know that's where we started.

Maria Valverde

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

David Garcia

We're urging people, particularly on Padre Island, in the strongest possible terms to evacuate.

Korey Rowe

It didn't seem possible and it took a long time to sink in.

Mark Warren

We are doing everything possible to treat the water,

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

Yuri Andropov

Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

Michiel Huisman

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Chris Carter

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Bob Lutz

You cannot buy a bad automobile any more from any producer. We have to do more products not because we're looking at a particular segment, but because it's a great vehicle.

Wyclef Jean

We produce, and we have producers we work with.

Dino De Laurentiis

If no producer, no movie.

Dean Kamen

I'm a human entropy producer.

Mike Nichols

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Mindy Cohn

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're scared of what you can't control

Greg Hawkins

I won't go to a doctor. I'm scared he'll tell me I can't wrestle.

Teresa Davis

I was getting a little scared there for a minute.

Allen McDonald

We're all scared this administration will single us out, the ones that are outspoken.

Dennys Reyes

I was so scared to see a doctor.

Mary Stewart

I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Foote

We just didn't want them to score today.

Ron Forman

We just come out and play ball. We never really try to come out and score this much, but sometimes it just all comes together.

Sergio Garcia

You just have to turn the scoreboard around. That?s the only thing.

Stephen Ames

I think I was watching it with Vijay. I was watching the scoreboard from the first hole, so I knew.

Christine Sinclair

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

Rick Adelman

We made him work, he took 20 shots to score 15 points.

Derek Jeter

I was thinking triple all the way. It's good, too, because it usually takes a triple to score Jorge.

Chelsea Baker

We can play with anyone, we can win any way and if they score a lot we'll score more.

Nick Haynes

We can play pretty well, but we just can't seem to find somebody that can score for us,

Willie Aames

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Bruce Weber

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

David R. Ellis

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Brendan Bayliss

We're not a studio band, so this isn't our best. We still have more to say.

Cesar Romero

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

Drew Goddard

You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.

Amy Wright

Wherever we go, build-out of a new studio will be necessary.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Antoine Fuqua

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Bertrand Russell

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

A successful business is created before there is a business.

Robert Kiyosaki

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.