Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Noth

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Eva Green

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Adam Mansbach

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

Tony Kaye

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Jess Glynne

I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Crispin Glover

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Trevor Noah

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Taylor Hawkins

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Maddie Ziegler

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Seth Rogen

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

David Crane

I'd like to hope that years from now people can look at the reruns...and say 'That is still a really funny show' or 'It's still really sweet.' And if that happens ... I'll be thrilled.

Joseph Trafton

He was the one who initially got me interested in the subject. I actually have his job now, so it's funny how that worked out.

Bobby Vinton

I wrote that song 'Melody Of Love', the one with the Polish lyrics, because over the years I had gone to Italy, Germany, South America.

Pavle Jovanovic

He keeps us on our toes, because you can be gone one race to the next no matter the outcome.

John Montgomery

Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great.

Sonya Berzett

Her numbers have been pretty consistent. They've gone up every year, for the most part.

Robert Redford

God, it was great to play a guy like him, gone to seed, surly,

Pat Perez

He's always gone by Joe. I was surprised he used Ignacio.

O. Winston

He's gone through a lot and I think that helps him. There's not too much stuff he hasn't gone through, that's for sure. He's a real raw player. He hasn't had a lot of experience. I think he's gotten significantly better. He's got a lot of want-to about him. And he's a good guy to have around.

Bill Snyder

I think the people that have come through the program and have gone on to be productive young people in society means as much as anything, ... I mean really productive people become special people in their own right.

Alex Salmond

We've gone from a small parliamentary party now to being a large one.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Tom Morrissey

I think you would see full-time people have their positions reduced, part-time people lose their jobs, and some people just retire.

Toni Simonetti

We are finalizing the number of jobs cuts, ... There will be some, but not on the magnitude of those that we have already done.

Alex Jones

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Steve Purchase

He has no specific or stated plan about what he wants to do. We want to know, where's the plan, Dick? Where's the plan to keep jobs in Michigan?

Richelle Mead

Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

Russell Johnson

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Howard Stringer

He's a star. Nobody turns down a meeting with him.

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Granth Sahib

I am a sacrifice to the True Guru. Meeting Him, the supreme status is obtained.

Matthew Turnbull

He will then come to our meeting a week later.

James Franklin

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Lindsey Graham

In these meetings she has been very guarded.

Anne Coates

I like meeting the people. I'm a theatre person.

Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Jim Bowden

I think you have to plan that he will not be back this year and be pleasantly surprised if he is.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Scott Cowen

I think we have to have a very comprehensive plan to rebuild the city,

Juli Lax

I think we're up to Plan K right now.

Michael Barrett

There are no plans to do any of this, but we're monitoring the situation closely.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Richard Paul Evans

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

David Shearer

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Ranit Schmelzer

He was not saying anything the administration has not said -- that we need to find these guys.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

Herman Edwards

I don't even know, ... I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy and say who the quarterback is. Anything is possible. But I'm not saying we're switching, I'm not saying that.

Heyneke Meyer

He will play, but I'm not saying where.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Anton LaVey

A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richard Howard

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

Richelle Mead

You are the most boring teacher ever." He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

Richelle Mead

I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, taleneted, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone-not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee-push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly. "Now, then. What is your brother's name?

Richelle Mead

He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

Tyler Oakley

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Christopher McQuarrie

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

John Cleese

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.