Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Don Rickles

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

Brian K. Vaughan

I remember when I was a kid and I would go to the comic-book store, I would have no idea what was going on in that month's issues. Sometimes I wouldn't even know what comics were coming out until I walked into the store.

David S. Goyer

The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it's not explored that much.

Chris Ware

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

Rebel Wilson

In comedy, it's not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They're either every man or every woman, they're either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

R. L. Stine

When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.

Paul Kane

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

Julie Klausner

I think Joan Rivers is such an untapped legend that people just don't appreciate, because they grew up with her on QVC, or they grew up with her on E!, or they grew up watching her do the things that in their minds the more prestigious comics wouldn't have taken or done.

Jane Seymour

I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they're not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I'd wanted to do when I was 5.

Colm Meaney

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

Chet Faker

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

Fred Wilson

The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking.

Fred Wilson

The only dangerous hurricanes so far are the ones we've been drinking. We can't get out, so we might as well have fun.

Leon Mbangwa

The patient is not in danger at all.

Bridget Kelly

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

Bee Wilson

The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.

David Foster

I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tina Turner

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gilbert Hernandez

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Donald Trump

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

William Kent Krueger

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Yehuda Berg

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

Feist

You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

C. S. Lewis

This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!

Michael Chertoff

That would be hugely, hugely difficult, and require an enormous expenditure of resources.

Peter O'Toole

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Ruth Ozeki

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

Stella Young

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.

Arthur Stein

We have the largest non-teaching hospital in the state, ... Whether you like or not, it is an enormous asset, and we often treat it like a stepchild.

Preston Sturges

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Isaac Mayer Wise

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

Gin Wigmore

I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.

Gene Ween

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

Donald Trump

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Vikram Seth

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

Becky G

Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

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.

Don Yaeger

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.

Robert McClure

The American people are always well-served in having a person like John Palmer as their public trustee." ()

Mike Johns

That was something that John had seen the play before. It's actually a play we've run on the JVs and had some success with it and it was right there.

Scott Brooks

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Robert Brown

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

Brian Schweitzer

You know, if John Kerry could do what I do, he'd be president,

Pam Smith

I think John is a splendid selection. He's calm, mild-mannered, and he really knows how to get things done.

Dick Muir

John will get anything up to a half.

Joaquin Phoenix

John wasn't (Jimi) Hendrix. It was real simple ... we rehearsed a lot.

Iggy Azalea

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

Isaac Brock

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

Brian K. Vaughan

I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.

Dean Geyer

I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

David Thewlis

I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

Mark Zuckerberg

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

Drew Frank

We were getting nice shots, high-percentage shots. I liked that.

Brian Cashman

We've liked him for a number of years.

Olga Kurylenko

It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there - then I realised how much I liked it.

Etel Adnan

I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Cilla Black

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Goldie Hawn

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Paul Cullen

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

Patricia McBride

I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

Wayne Hale

We've looked end-to-end at the shuttle to make improvements and make it safer than it has ever been.

Brian Billick

We've looked at these quarterbacks more than we've looked at any position since I've been here,

Don Thomas

We've looked at some (locations) that have potential.

Brad White

We've looked at it long enough. We've got to do something about it.

Taurean Green

We have to play a year older than what we really are.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Armistead Maupin

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.

J. Moore

We have some people getting older and weren't able to play the white tees.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Sarah Allen

We're older and a lot of people thought we were crazy. A lot of people still think we're crazy. They don't live in our shoes.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.

Megan Fox

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

William Shakespeare

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

George Allen

I have no intention of running for office again.

C. S. Lewis

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

C. S. Lewis

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

C. S. Lewis

Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.

C. S. Lewis

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

C. S. Lewis

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

Catullus

What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

Catullus

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

Zack Snyder

We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.

Ashley Tisdale

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Bill Budge

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Bill Budge

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

Bill Burr

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

Kelly Scott

We have to worry about the stuff in the refrigerator.

Christopher Sullivan

We've got stuff we've got to do now,

Albert Jr

When that kind of stuff happens, especially when you've never had anything, you don't really even know what it is.

Marisa Coughlan

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

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.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Mark Lewis

The new CMC version removes the need for an administrator to visit each site.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.