Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Conrad

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Jhonen Vasquez

Usually when I get a letter from a parent it's because they buy my stuff. I don't really get a whole lot of negative response in general.

Walt Disney

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

Joseph Barbera

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

Ted Rall

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Jhonen Vasquez

Johnny was the very first book I did.

Alison Bechdel

Yeah, I think some of that is just wish-fulfillment, you know, how little kids fantasize through their drawings. I wanted to be powerful.

Dan DeCarlo

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Mike Peters

I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.

Brad Zeigel

Our team is pretty young team and we've got some freshmen who are just really quick and just thrive up front there. We've got Cathy (Vega), Hanna (Burleigh) and we can put Whitney (Campbell), Taylor (Wagner) and Kelsey (Clapper) up there and it just makes a huge difference instead of just relying on just one or two players.

Greg Cook

Cathy is dedicated to Nevada City. She's a very special person.

George Novak

Cathy is an exceptional young lady. She is an outstanding student and intern, which she had to be to land the internship and receive the award. Our department is proud of her, and the way she managed her priorities, with a family, school and work, is commendable.

Heather Strong

Cathy (Cunningham) has been in every situation in the 10 times she's been here and she just reminded us that it was the first end and there were nine more to go.

Mike O'Brien

I give those two all the credit. You saw Cathy gave everything she had until she fell over. It's the kind of kids they are.

Ed O'Neill

All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

Cilla Black

Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing.

Dick Bove

Clearly no one would have expected someone who has been as successful as Cathy has been in consumer marketing to wind up in the payments-services business. But on the other hand, if she emerges as a problem solver, this could help propel her to the top management ranks.

Yahya Jammeh

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Billy Graham

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Zubin Mehta

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

Ellen G. White

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Esther Rolle

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Pat Morita

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

Mark Hing

Most investors put their portfolios together in a haphazard manner and don't have a sound stock selection strategy. They end up with a patchwork portfolio filled with low-quality securities.

David Schwab

It'd be one thing if he's 25 and filled a demographic niche. But the older the demographic you try to reach, the less risky you want to be.

Scott Warner

We have a whole room filled with those,

Robert Kiyosaki

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Sam Williams

I was unfamiliar with many of the agencies, ... The interviews filled in a lot of gaps.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Yael Stone

I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

Walead Beshty

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Brina Palencia

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.

David Steinberg

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Carrie Fisher

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Carl Reiner

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Carl Rogers

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Bette Davis

Yes, burn your bridges.

Anthony Storr

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.