Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donatella Versace

(Demi) is a woman who has kids, who has a career and still looks amazing first thing in the morning. No wonder she has such a gorgeous man by her side. She looks just as sexy in a pair of jeans and a sweater as she does in an evening dress that is my idea of a woman.

Ted Purdy

I understand he's really slowing down, but at 94, he's still an amazing guy. I'm sorry not to see him this week, but I hope he can make it for his tournament in Dallas next month.

George Foreman

The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.

Lorenza Izzo

Boom, I move to L.A. after doing 'Aftershock,' and I've been actually working here. So it's all been 'boom'; it's all been 'boom' everything. It's so exciting. It's been amazing. I'm a very lucky girl.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

Joe Koch

Brian tests really well. I know he ran a 4.29 hand-held (40-yard dash) at Junior Day at Wisconsin last spring, and he's got amazing hands.

Nick Cannon

Bow Wow is amazing in this film, ... I always like to say, 'If you can't picture someone else in the film, then that person did a phenomenal job,' and I can't really picture anybody else in the role of Xavier. He stripped himself totally of the Bow Wow character and became Xavier.

Michelle MacLaren

'Breaking Bad' was a magical, amazing experience. I'm honored to have been a part of it.

Campbell Scott

'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

Catherine Misko

It is our hope that if we are able to negotiate a sale, we will be able to work with the new owners to hire the employees. ... We don't have anything within the company for the bakery employees to transfer to.

Dave Bloom

The 'Wizard of Oz' is her favorite movie, and this past December, she was a part of the lullaby league in a production of the 'Wizard of Oz' in Flatwoods.

Kristin Gore

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

Debbie Garvin

What are the things I want to do for my family, myself and my favorite charity.

Caroline Leland

My favorite part was meeting the author. She is one of my favorite authors, and I liked the book, so to meet the person who wrote it was great.

Karla Comfort

My favorite part is the scene from heaven.

Steven Whitney

My favorite of all the sports is football. I wasn't the starter as quarterback, but I ran the other team's offense in practice and it was nice to have all that responsibility on my shoulders. I like being the main guy.

Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts.

Bob Holthus

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

Adelaide Kane

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

James Jordan

I've learned it's a lot more than what people see.

James Reed

I've learned a lot from him, ... I still learn a lot every time I talk to him.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Richard Rose

That's Troy basketball. When we're playing together, like tonight, we know we can play with anyone.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Sherilyn Fenn

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Tionne Watkins

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

Mario Lopez

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Barbara Block

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

Bruce Lee

The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Aubrey Peeples

I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.

Legislator Korce

We do not want to work off of assumptions.

Ashley Wagner

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.