Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

John Haley

I would be very troubled about how to deliver the project without active support from the city.

John Macdonald

I wish there were 1,000 people here. Still, it's a good start. As Catholics, we need to be concerned with what the future of Canada will look like. We need to take an active interest and be a part of future developments.

Debra Robinson

She was bored at home. She's active and smart, and she needs to be in something.

Shane Pendergrass

She was a tireless worker for good causes and Democrats in the state. She was active and hard working, and just a very nice person.

Jerry Brown

She was involved and active from the very first day we started to organize there. The union was a vehicle for her to stand up and demand respect for herself and her fellow employees, and I think that's why she has always been so passionate about it.

Iain Smith

She will be sorely missed. She was an active member of the royal family and a strong servant of her country.

Pokey Chatman

She's so active without the ball. She knows she's drawing the most attention, that she's going to be held, bumped, pushed and challenged. But it's not going to change her game. It's not going to make her stop cutting and screening and staying active.

Jessica Alba

She's really girly and feminine, which is quite funny because Paul is so active and into sports. It's a nice balance for Paul.

Clara Shih

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Danny McBride

When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

Dan Chaon

I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

David Mamet

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'

David Mamet

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Dave Attell

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

Curtis Hanson

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Andre Leon Talley

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Kathy Sierra

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Henry Cavill

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

Susan Adams

They just don't need stuff like what we've got.

Neill Blomkamp

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

Nicole Sullivan

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Martin Landau

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop