Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Di Filippo

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

Princess Anne

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.

Ben Smith

We have had an arduous four months where we've been tested under fire and we're looking forward to bringing this group of 20 athletes together to make the final push. As Americans we all know what the objective is and this group of athletes gives us the best chance of accomplishing that goal.

Clive Beddoe

I don't think it's coming to any resolution. It's continuing down this very slow and arduous path.

L. Sprague de Camp

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

Judy Biggert

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

David Braun

Web design is a complex and sometimes arduous process that requires deep knowledge in design, usability, etc.. ReInvention will guide everyone through the process, with a detailed explanation of each stage. We hope that many people will find the project interesting enough to participate. To make the project even more compelling, we will do all the hard work for free.

Livy

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

Bruce Barbour

It has been a long and arduous process. We are happy to have reached a fair settlement.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Irving Paul Lazar

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

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.

Tim Berners-Lee

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Ruth Bernhard

I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better.

Elliott Stonecipher

You are going to see everything you can imagine in campaigning.

Kelly Williams

We wanted to help. We wanted to help. I can't imagine being separated from my kids. We just had to do something, something to help.

Dave Calloway

We're unique. I don't know how many teams play like us. I can't imagine Villanova shooting 30 percent on Sunday.

Bartolo Colon

You don't even imagine what the scenery is around here. People stopping by and honking their horns, ... It's been really, really crazy, crazy, crazy. It's the first time ever that we are celebrating something like this. ... There's going to be a lot of partying.

Jose Ramos

I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.

Derek Brown

Just about any industry you can imagine is going to be impacted in some way,

John Bell

We get some resistance to rentals because Longfellow residents can't imagine who would want to come into this neighborhood to rent,

Chuck Palahniuk

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

Alice Walker

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Peter Morgan

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

John Bercow

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is an invaluable tradition.

Tom DeLay

It is expensive, but at the same time, it's incredibly important, because the return (in results) to the people of the United States and the world is also very important.

Cara Bortz

I'm so incredibly proud of this team. We've been the underdogs most of the season. I think we'll be just as strong (in 2006-07).

Nate Feltman

We realize we need to be incredibly cautious.

Jacob Knight

We are on our way up and look incredibly better than in the last three years I've played.

Bob Woodward

On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent.

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Dominic Modise

As a minority coach, you have to prove yourself. Things can change, but it's always important to remember where you come from.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Gary Flake

We can streamline the whole process of how we innovate.

Nathan Moss

I'm still in the process of making up my mind.

Justin Ramsey

We have an in-depth ability. We realize that it's not about solving a specific problem, it's about understanding ... the process in general.

Gregg Hartley

We formalized the process of reaching out to them. You could talk to Tom or Tom's people, or Roy or Roy's people. It was all the same.

Ron Gardenhire

We are in the process of tracking him down to find out what's going on. We don't know when he'll be in.

Javad Vaidi

We are in the process of negotiating on the modalities of this participation.

Dan Considine

We'd rather see reductions be made through a process like this than any kind of confrontational process.

Jeremy Nichols

Unfortunately, this is the way the process often works.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

David Aebischer

Usually, you should win these games. Somehow right now, we are a little short.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Muhammad Yunus

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Darren Shan

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Bill Watterson

My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.

Alain de Botton

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

Ben Schwartz

When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

Edwidge Danticat

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Alessandra Ambrosio

I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want.

Allison Tolman

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Amy Lee

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.