Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Berry

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

Bill Cosby

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work.

F. Sionil Jose

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

Christina Milian

The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.

William Rehnquist

The American judicial system is admired throughout the world.

Ken Lombard

We have always admired the enormous talents of Herbie Hancock, ... When Jack Rovner and I first learned that we might be able to work with Herbie, we immediately jumped at the opportunity. And for the relationship to begin with a project as exciting as Possibilities is more than we could have hoped for. There are very few artists whose contribution to music has been as substantial and original as Herbie Hancock's. It is a great privilege to be undertaking this project with him.

Piet Mondrian

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Pat Nixon

If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.

Dan Bucatinsky

I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Jennifer Anderson

Those are the most successful people if they go to a class. When they come and just want to do a machine, sometimes the longevity isn't as much.

Chad Knaus

We've got longevity to stay here and do whatever it is we need to do to win the championship. That's something a lot of places don't have.

Aries Spears

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Alonzo Mourning

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Gary Grant

I would like to think that Congressman Leach's longevity is attributed to his thoughtful, intelligent representation of his constituents.

Julia Child

(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.

Kim Basinger

I'm very thankful that I've had such longevity and variety.

H. Hart

soon realize they're out there spraying at daybreak. They're out there picking at night (under lights), and it's costing them more than they're getting out of it. That's not the type of vineyard longevity I'm looking for.

Joseph Estey

The study seems to verify what was suspected, ... The idea of testing longevity is something that needs to be looked at.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Dean Winters

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Max von Essen

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

Julie Smith

Merkel and Chirac would not have worked particularly well together.

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.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.