Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

Gigi Hadid

People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.

Angelina Jolie

I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.

E. F. Benson

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Jamie Zawinski

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

Jason Alexander

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Arthur C. Clarke

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

James Corden

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

Roger Kahn

I see the boys of summer in their ruin.

Dave Harris

The Vienna Choir Boys is something I've always wanted to see. To see them in person is just really special.

Judy Burns

This is a special Scouting program that the boys can earn a patch for. We thought this was a good time to try and fill the shelves of the local pantries.

Brandon Sanderson

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

Jane Campion

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Krysten Ritter

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'

Brandon Sanderson

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Jamie Bell

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Blake Lively

I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can cook and look like that? And I always have really cute aprons.

Jasika Nicole

My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.

Ariana Grande

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

Elizabeth Scott

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

Brittany Murphy

It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever played before. The first time I saw the characters in the studio I remember thinking that Mumble looked just like Elijah, with such a cute and endearing face. I don't think Gloria looks that much like me.

Rick Riordan

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Marianne Moore

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ben Okri

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Brian Jacques

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Brenda Strong

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Don Kloth

Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.

Dean Wagenaar

Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.

Levi Leipheimer

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Chris Riddell

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Catherine McCormack

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Arundhati Roy

He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

Douglas Booth

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

Brian Lumley

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Edward Abbey

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Adam Brody

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.

Anais Nin

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

Robert Herrick

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Eva Simons

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Sandy Greenberg

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

Allen Iverson

We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes,

Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Russell Simmons

I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.

Robert Hormats

We have a conundrum. We have a strong economy, but lots of people feel insecure.

Tom Jankovsky

We haven't been sold. There have been lots of people looking, but that's it. There have been no offers.

Terry Chapin

Because of these feedbacks, there are lots of reasons to think that this warming will continue.

Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.

Julianne Moore

She won lots of stuff. She'd win these prizes. What she didn't want to keep, she'd sell. She won a trip to Switzerland, she'd sell it and put money toward the mortgage.

Sarah Chang

But I have lots of friends, because I'm a real people person,

Andrew Card

He's still working... still considering lots of options.

Alexander Ovechkin

We played very well, but we had lots of penalties.

Sean Parker

Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

Bobby Jones

I got an extra hour's nap.

David Boies

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.

Dan Farmer

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Mark Hammond

It sounds like he wants to do what I've already done.

Cecily Strong

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Mark Noble

That sounds like a lot of line, but for specter-fiber, 35-pound test is about like monofilament, 10-pound test.

Marsha Thomason

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Edward Abbey

The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.