Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Joyce

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

David Byrne

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Bonnie Tyler

I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn't like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I'm glad I wasn't associated with that!

Elaine Pagliarulo

That was great. She needed that. This team needed that. They had put their best defensive players on her the past two games. Tonight we needed her to step up anyway and she did that.

Pico Iyer

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.

Paul Auster

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

J. C. Watts

We've kind of gotten a cult following at this point, so we sold out in an hour and thirty-six minutes this year, online and as you can see everybody's coming out anyway in spite of the nasty weather.

Pat Barker

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

Ichiro Suzuki

My comments seemed to stir up a lot of things but they are going be interpreted in many ways anyway and I'm fine with that. I felt the weight of shouldering the Japanese flag and this primarily brought out my emotions in this tournament.

Zubin Mehta

It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

Rob Puterio

The overall quality is down, but the competition is up.

Chuck Grassley

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Carl Sagan

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

Danielle Brown

We need to keep the competition going. We want to prove to everybody that last year wasn't a mistake. We want to prove to everybody that we deserve to win.

Jerry Angelo

We could have taken a tight end earlier. We want to create competition at that position. There will be some veteran players flushed out, with all the guys who were drafted, and we will look at those.

Miles Avery

We just didn't obviously have enough. Obviously we weren't prepared enough to come in here and not finish fourth. That's our one goal: Relax and just not finish fourth in this competition and just get to the second day and we obviously did not do that.

Robin S. Sharma

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

Kim Pfeifer

We have three infielders and a pitcher who have experience, but the rest of the team are all inexperienced. We have a great group of hard-working girls who are hungry to fill so many open positions and the competition has been great, so in that sense, youth has worked to our advantage.

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

Felix Magath

We were so sure we were the better team, we were so sure we would score, then we were handed one ourselves.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus handed down in succession the royal sages knew this (Karma-yoga). After a long time the science of Karma-yoga was lost from this earth.

Jack Kirby

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Mary Johnson

He is the same in person as he is in public. He didn't have anything handed to him on a silver platter.

Matt Winkler

I can't lie. That was a huge motivational factor. We talked about not playing Fieldcrest basketball. They handed us our lunch (earlier).

Chris Bell

We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.

Carl Erskine

That's been handed down over the years. That was not uncommon to be said: 'Get me something to work with.

Manuel Luna

More than 30 human remains have been handed over to be identified.

Chris Thompson

She didn't know me. She didn't know my family, ... She just handed me the envelope. She said, 'This is for you and your family,' and she walked away.

Patrick Modiano

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

Paul Jewell

You just got the impression it was one of those nights.

William Hatcher

I think the team's first impression was this was like homework.

Andy Engel

I was under the impression that you had to be a student to be on it.

Gary Mitchell

I was under the impression most people got the message. Apparently, the jury didn't.

Gregory Coleman

I was under the impression he was there (at the school), if you want to say, to allude justice,

Roger Gerlach

I think our team is going to show up. I know that's the pat answer, but we're not content. I didn't get that impression at practice.

John A. Logan

I had mapped most of these data, and had an impression about it, but I didn't want to do anything about it until I had seen it.

Veronique Keyser

I have more and more the impression that things could go calmly.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.