Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

Toni Trucks

My hometown I grew up in in Michigan is really tiny, and they are so excited for all of my adventures my whole life.

Alex Turner

We're getting a lot of (new) music together. It's all about our adventures at the moment. We don't see Sheffield much anymore ? it's a closed book. We're moving on and thinking about different things.

Chris Riddell

As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.

Ian Livingston

People can't go climbing mountains or go on Lara Croft adventures or go down damp, dark dungeons killing monsters, ... They've got to live with what is reality -- they can't play for England at football, but through games they can. You know, it's three dimensional dreaming.

Jacques Villeneuve

Spa is a great track! I've got memories of some adventures there, though it's never been lucky for me. It's definitely a track where you can feel stronger than the rest if you go through the corners flat. It's one of the last high-speed circuits that we have and it's a very long lap.

Ian Livingstone

I used to read comics all the time - escapism, ... So, it was good you get to make up your own adventures as an only child.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Think of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' It is equally intoxicating for children and adults. All this 'crossover' talk is something publishers are using as a selling device - a kind of post hoc rationalisation of what was happening already.

Ann Hood

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Rick Riordan

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

Martina Hingis

I'm just waiting for a wild card to play in the Australian Open . To face Anna will be a good test for me.

Steve Hall

Each one is finding their niche. (Katie Rill) has been solid for us all year inside scoring tough baskets, Katy Richards and Anna Vogel are two of our post players who can shoot the ball. We're also getting contributions from Spencer Jump and Gracie Snider out on the perimeter and Olivia (Bull) has been able to drive to the basket.

Ban Ki-moon

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Debbie Johnson

After a while, Anna couldn't hold on any longer and she let go, ... They found her body a few days later.

Marco Selle

Anna was scared about her recovery from last week because she was losing two days of training by coming here.

Moran Atias

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles.

Marcia Muller

Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'

Amy Freeto

Anna is two goals away from breaking her single-season scoring record. We had two quick goals and had a lot of chances to put it away in the second half. We controlled most of the play.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Curtis Anderson

I would say it's four to one we've had more bad days than good days.

Ed Muniz

Katrina dealt us a bad hand. But to say you're going to cut Mardi Gras is the wrong approach. That would be another financial hit for the city as well as a psychological hit.

Sean Casey

Just watching my teammates on TV, how close they're coming and not getting results ... it hurts a lot. I'm there on the couch, the game is close and they need a big hit, and I'm, like, 'Jeez, let me get out there.' I want so badly to be part of it again.

Jason Isringhausen

Just one bad pitch I wish I could get back, but I can't. It's just frustrating more than anything, but we'll be back out there.

James Haynes

Joe has good feet, ... If something broke down, I felt he could get away easily. The other night (against DeSoto) he got a bad snap, made this guy miss and that guy miss, and before you knew it, he broke it to the sidelines for about 30 yards.

Dan Roton

Josh won that match with heart. He's worked so hard for us for four years, and just had some bad luck and bad brackets the last two years.

Quinton Porter

In 2003, ... I probably would have tried to run out of bounds or throw it out of bounds.

Mike McDonald

A lot of guys hit driver off that hole, but it's a narrow fairway with out of bounds on the left and right. So I hit iron (2-iron) off the tee like I did last year because I knew I could still get home in two.

Othella Harrington

It was time for the players to speak up and say how they felt about the team and where we are going. Get it all off our chests. The most frustrating part is, going into the season, I thought we'd be leaps and bounds far better than we were last year in terms of defense. Right now, we're just not.

Bob Cabana

We're growing by leaps and bounds now and it's just all working, outstanding.

John McCormick

You either need to score or get out of bounds quick, and some guys up front sprung him and did a nice job." ()

John Kuhn

We just wanted to get it in bounds as fast as we could, drive up the court and see what we could get. I remember looking up at the clock and seeing five seconds, then just driving for the hoop. Whatever will happen will happen.

John Vanbrugh

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

Mike Reilly

Plus, he had the presence of mind to stay in bounds and keep the clock moving. Incredible.

Bubba Watson

My goal is to hit it inside the white stakes (out of bounds markers). No matter where it is, fairway, in the trees, as long as I have a swing, I'm happy.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Asif Kapadia

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Chris Robinson

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

Cole Mueller

Everyone knows USC films help launch actors' careers. USC film students know what they're doing.

Alicia Keys

Everyone on the set had been working on films for 20-plus years. I was enraptured.

David Smith

The biped robots that have been proclaimed for the past 50 years in sci-fi films are now on their way.

Sung Kang

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

Kate Winslet

It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.

Ruby Rose

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Jim Sheehan

This was a good win. I am really pleased the girls played as well as they did.

Javier Ramirez

What we worked on this summer was our vertical. I don't have great size. But these girls can get off the ground.

Julie Klausner

Here is how you meet women: You tell the girls you are friends with - the ones in relationships - that you want a girlfriend. You shouldn't even have to say 'Set me up' or 'Introduce me!' If they're good girls, they'll get the hint.

Todd Borrison

I thought when their guards penetrated and got good shots, our big girls made the shots tough one them and that made the big difference.

Dallas Richter

We surprised a lot of people. It's starting to sink in with the girls and the community. The town is abuzz.

Andy Scott

We threw it into high gear. The girls played with passion.

James Avery

When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.

Kevin Edwards

I thought the girls played with a lot of heart tonight,

Kris Kleeman

I thought the girls played well tonight. We didn't handle the pressure as well as I would have liked, but they played well.

Algis Shalna

I think we would be happy to (see her) get into the top 20. We have to at some point be realistic.

Shay Carl

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

Jim Rayfield

I think this play is, in a sense, the father's story. We see him go from a state of happiness - he's content; he has his son; he's okay - to the end, where he is totally lost.

Carl Jung

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Virginia Woolf

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

William Wordsworth

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William J. Clinton

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

Dan Glickman

Kansas is not going to become the Hollywood of the future. But the film studios are looking to make quality stories, interesting stories, all over the country.

Sam Simon

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Johnny Grant

his vigor and passion for Hollywood that's just so infectious and so important.

Robin Wright

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Robert Redford

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Sarah Paulson

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

Robin Thicke

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Winona Ryder

There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!"

Nick Cave

I just sat down and banged it out in the spirit of those old Hollywood guys.

Mariangee Bogado

I was looking at the scoreboard a lot. I knew I had the no-hitter, but I think it's all mental. I was just thinking about getting everyone out.

Tamba Hali

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

Pete Fenson

He just shook it off and played the way we knew he could play.

Army Sgt.

He just refused to go until he knew he had a welcoming place,

Jeremy Rowell

He knew what he was getting into. He's such a physical player on offensive side. I don't think he'll have any problems transitioning to defense. He understands how to get after the football.

Jeff Backus

He knew what he was doing. It's a letdown, but we move forward.

Alan Alda

He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.

Danny Medina

He knew our system so well. He knew what plays to run and what to stick with.

Cindy Cook

He knew my address, my name, knew we'd just signed up with Telstra, that we'd just moved in over the weekend, it was scary.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Jim Palmer

He was such an important part of my career, and a large part of our success in the 1960s.

Bill Sandusky

I have done a number of large paintings, but nothing this large and nothing this time consuming.

Robert Reich

He is a little man, slightly stooped, balding, large nose, wide lips, wry smile. He wears thick glasses, ... Locked in the Cabinet.

Miguel de Icaza

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries.

David Longanecker

In a large university, the president spends so much time on fundraising and legislative relations and big thinking that they need a day-to-day management czar.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Shannon Hildreth

I lived in Louisiana. They (the recreation league) wouldn't let us play until we were 8.

Samantha Aldom

I lived here until I was 13, and since my dad's a member, I know a lot of them. It's nice going through this process with people you know.

Joe Mantello

I lived with a playwright for 12 years,

Linda Brown

I know one thing. If the commissioners lived in this park, it would have never had passed.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Rachel Johnson

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

Lauren Bacall

If goodness is its own reward, shouldn't we get a little something for being naughty?

Brian Jacques

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good...

Erin Hunter

Graystorm: You know Firestar was also very naughty, just like you. Bramblepaw: Really? He seems to be very responsible! Graystorm: Yes. I was there when he was too stubborn to not help RiverClan

Mark Landy

I would venture that we are now outside of gentlemanly territory,

John Emerich

Resist your time - take a foothold outside it

Amit Hazan

I like the strategy they're taking, which is to consolidate the smaller players outside the U.S. to become a stronger player,

Taylor Momsen

Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.

Dan Patrick

It's time for outside thinking. It's time for an outside viewpoint. And it's time for the people to have a voice in Austin.

Natalie Hall

It's freezing. If I always had to stand outside to smoke I would understand, too.

Kristen Johnston

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Joan Didion

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

Darren Shan

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Thomas Jefferson

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Martin Seligman

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

Peter Drucker

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

Mark Twain

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Mason Cooley

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

Lulu

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Laurie Colwin

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

Malcolm Gladwell

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

John Maynard Keynes

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

Joseph Barbera

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

Luanne Rice

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Clive Cussler

It will be a thrilling moment, ... It's going to be a wonder.

Camille Paglia

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Cynthia Kenyon

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

Tom Robbins

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.