Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

Thierry Henry

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Imelda May

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

Gail Carriger

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

Gillian Armstrong

I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

Gillian Armstrong

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

Yolanda Adams

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

William Fichtner

When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none.

Giovanni Agnelli

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

B. R. Hayden

The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.

Wole Soyinka

If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene.

Nathaniel Branden

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Samuel Bodman

The amount of refined product versus crude that they will offer has not been determined, ... Their intentions are to provide the maximum amount of refined product within their requirements.

John Samuelsen

The amount of infighting has made the union a big, fat target for the transit authority. They see a weak and divided union, and they're taking a hard line.

Kiki Chesterton

The amount of improvement since I came here in the fall is 2,000 percent.

Deanna Lassegard

The amount of human suffering that was encapsulated in that building was just phenomenal.

Dave Band

The amount of generosity from around the country, I'm sure, is staggering right now from people just giving what they can. We're just getting in line behind those people, getting in line a long way behind the Red Cross or National Guard, but we all have to do a little bit.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Gin Wigmore

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

Zac Efron

There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

Richard Chu

The overriding issue is on getting the channel and distribution model in shape,

Denis Leary

Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'

Nash Grier

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

Issam Ghazawi

The appropriate channel is for the accusations to come through the court and for the lawyers to receive a copy of the indictment.

Ted Koppel

The 10 of us are enormously excited to be at a place that wants nothing more than to produce the kind of television journalism that focuses on issues that matter to the largest number of people. We look forward to creating quality programming that provides the in-depth information for which Discovery Channel is known.

Steve Bartlett

We have worked with our channel partners on these changes, and most of them were driven by the channel.

Mia Wasikowska

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

Turkish Proverb

Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.

French Proverbs

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.

Randy Schneider

Stephanie is going to be a great pitcher. She's learning to make every pitch important. When she digs in and throws hard, she's good.

Dan Ayres

Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs tend to be very popular, partly because we often get good weather.

Mike White

It was just a never-say-die attitude. If you lose a game, it just digs at you. When you lose, you just wish your guys played hard and worked hard and never said die. You just hope they take that on in life.

Eddie Campbell

None of the archaeological digs had been properly written up at that time, they had happened, but they hadn't been properly analysed and published.

Christopher Gelpi

This kind of story hits at one of the president's few remaining strengths, the perception that he is principled. The president's credibility on Iraq is already low outside the Republican Party, and this digs the hole deeper.

Brad Shaw

I think everybody should take a trip up that elevator once in their life.

Benjamin Harrison

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,

Fairfax Cone

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Bill Doyle

She opened the letter in an elevator and got dizzy. She was in total shock. She never expected this.

Steve Israel

now seeking an appropriation for an elevator for Anthony Hall.

David Levithan

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Peter Swire

What's done in the elevator stays in the elevator. Except when it doesn't.

Arthur Rubinstein

Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me

Tony Warner

Everything from the elevator down will be closed.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

Evan Siegel

We know the kind of music listener that we are looking for.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

John Harbison

No performer wants the listener to be distracted, least of all Lorraine,

Moby

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Kelly Jones

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

James Mercer

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

Lester Bowie

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

John Ray

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Damien Chazelle

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Steve Lacy

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Michael Luxner

This is the first time we've ever done Mozart outdoors.

Robert Morris

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Cecilia Bartoli

Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'.

Yanni

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Yanni

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Todd Rundgren

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Ian MacKaye

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

Irwin Thomas

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Chris Wilson

We haven't been sold on the necessity of this,

John Milton

With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

Publius Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

Dave Wilson

The necessity of the median has never really been justified.

Bryan Moore

It's not just a road for pleasure, but it's a necessity.

William Shakespeare

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

John Diaz

I don't see it as a necessity to run them.

Cristina Correa

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

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.

Gene Ween

You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Hugh Johnson

Merck reminds us that this is about earnings.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

Anthony Biondo

For three state titles. It was kind of a reminder for me.

Larry Brown

He reminds me so much of Isiah (Thomas).

Bobby Locke

He reminds me of Tracy McGrady without the flash.

Funkmaster Flex

He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young,

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Tu Mingde

The preparations have been going smoothly and well on schedule.

Cameron Johnson

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

Amanda Bynes

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.

Harold Vogel

He's done it in the right way. He's smoothed all the ruffled feathers.

David Swift

My expectations are that we're going to have a very smooth process.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Caroline Knapp

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Mindy Kaling

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

Stephen Robinson

Thanks to the whole team for making this day super smooth and easy, as well historic.

Bill Hader

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Tyler, The Creator

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Octavio Paz

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

Thomas Beecham

Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.

Jill Scott

Who Is Jill Scott? Words & Sounds Vol. 1,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Jack Johnson

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

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.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Robert Fulghum

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Robert Kiyosaki

You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

Robert Kiyosaki

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Robert Kiyosaki

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

Robert Kiyosaki

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,

Gary Vaynerchuk

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Petrarch

It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

Lisa Kleypas

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Carrie Brownstein

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Antoine Lavoisier

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Tom Anderson

We've got the coolers at 18 degrees. This weather isn't helping.

William Shakespeare

. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

Shelly Chernicki

We've been very fortunate, but there's more weather to come.

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."