Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

Rick Smolan

What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

John Zeoli

Willie Smith is just a superb athlete. It's unreal what he does on the court. It amazes me the more I see him play. He does so many things for us. He's just a great kid and we were very fortunate.

Emily Johnson

I think this is a very exciting opportunity for people to dress up and go out and have a good time. It's also for a good cause. The shelter really needs the support of the communities it serves. It amazes me how many people don't know about the shelter and the service it provides. I encourage everyone to support it.

Martin Gore

I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest of the world doesn't seem to care. I'm not sure whether they don't remember or whether they've just moved on from it. I was brought up in the glam era.

Yehuda Berg

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Nancy Taylor

One thing Scooter loves to do is work with children. He wants to have a place where he can teach children and help them find their potential through art. He's amazing with his art. He amazes all of us.

Mike Smith

For whatever reason, they're too lazy to take it there. It amazes me that they dump it in their backyard.

Robbie Tobeck

He's a great open field runner. If we can just get him a hole to get through and he gets through that hole, he's just so good at setting things up. It amazes me sometimes how well he does set up a block in the open field.

Gianni Agnelli

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Virginia Postrel

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.

Gary Meyer

The only reason we are talking about this (wheel tax) is to get a vote (for the EMS budget), and I have a real problem with that. The feeling I'm getting here tonight is that I'm buying (Williams') vote so that he'll get the Capital Improvement Plan in gear for 2005.

Phil Boyer

The pilots of tomorrow are the plane buyers of tomorrow.

Stephen Baker

The PC is much more of a mature product than it's ever been before, so it's much subject to the vagaries of the overall economy, ... When the economy slows and people retrench, they don't buy durable goods, and the PC is a big durable now.

Donald Norman

If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.

Nikki Reed

I do feel like by buying rats from a pet store, you are saving them because if not, they would get fed to a snake or something.

Lyndell Zanotti

That was his big thing. He did that several times. He was extremely generous. He was always buying things, just doing whatever he could. He used his own money. He liked helping the kids because he didn't have any kids of his own. He was very good to the girls.

Atsuko Abe

That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Rhonda Rompola

That was a very frustrating moment. Unfortunately, the official didn't hear me and I didn't want Cobb taking it, but she did have a decent look.

Gary Evans

We have tried to treat our people like we want to be treated. We try and pay a decent wage and have been fortunate to hire some really good people.

Rick Rudesill

We were getting decent looks, but they were going in and out. The panic set in and we stopped doing the little things to score.

Mark Riggin

With the experience that we have, we should have a decent year. A lot of these guys have three years of varsity experience. They know what I expect, and we want to win the section and win a playoff game.

Jim Whitesell

We're really thankful. It's a decent rivalry without over-the-top crazies. They saw a good game.

Henry Hewitt

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Chris Mitchell

Miami has a decent shot ... I have the opportunity to play early.

Steve Bates

You can be reasonably sure you're getting a decent investment there.

Idris Elba

I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

Gillian Armstrong

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Marc Bulger

We need to have Steven in this game a whole lot more. When the D-line can tee off, it makes it awfully tough on our linemen, and they're dropping eight guys and it's tough for our guys to get open.

Chris Lander

We just didn't make baskets the second half. We've got to be able to shoot from the outside. We had some good looks, but couldn't drop the shots.

Mavis Staples

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Vic Santoro

We were hoping he would go under 53 seconds, but we're pleased with his drop in time.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Barack Obama

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

M. Wolfe

We have to live in the real world and in the real world we generate trash,

Paul Williams

Val IT provides well-researched guidance that helps organizations select investments with the potential to generate the highest returns.

Jeff Gross

My better sense tells me (that many) stoplight tickets issued to metro Des Moines residents and unsuspecting visitors will generate some discontent, if not serious outrage.

Rick Smith

You can have the most incredible speed ever, but if the path and space relationship are off, you'll hit it all over the place. If you don't have the ingredients to try to generate speed, then you need to play within yourself.

Rhys Ifans

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

Tom Foley

We generate $1 million a day in taxes for the state.

Bill Pecoriello

I think Pepsi is in a great situation. Pepsi could get this done at $90 per share now and really generate some shareholder value.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

Alison Goldfrapp

They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I suppose I can't really relate to it on a personal level at all, because you never really understand where the personal comes into what they do.

Peter Cordingley

We are very keen to see generic versions of this anti-viral drug available, but we will not pressure Roche to do so (relinquish its patent).

Bo Ryan

We are so generic in our first practice,

Albert Rauch

If you had a generic Lipitor, it would be harder for Vytorin to compete. When you have a generic out there, you start worrying about therapeutic substitution.

Juan Jimenez

It's really great for those who live in retirement homes and want to save through the purchase of generic drugs.

Merrill Lynch

In our view, the risk of negative ruling was largely factored into market expectations with the timing of a generic launch being the main issue.

Nadine Smith

When you have a generic policy that says 'all,' it's the same as having no policy at all. We should be moved to action, but also disciplined so that what we do is good, not just feel-good.

Carrie Preston

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Pavel Kubina

That would be nice. That's a big milestone. You never know. You have to stay healthy and play well enough.

David Seiders

We can't hold at the pace we had last year. It's not going to be the end of the world -- it's going to be a simmering down to a very healthy pace.

Michael Brennan

We were simply outmanned tonight. We have not played with a completely healthy squad all year.

A. N. Wilson

Most intelligence reports are naturally regarded with healthy skepticism until they're vetted and looked into.

Milton Stokes

Most important, maintain a healthy weight; being too thin or too heavy can lessen your odds of conceiving.

Tom Rossley

Whoever we've got, we'll line 'em up. We'll go to whoever is healthy and ready to play.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

Source Unknown

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

William Shakespeare

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

William Collins

If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Balthazar Getty

I had a very modest upbringing.

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

Mark Helprin

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

Jacques Attali

It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

David Ogilvy

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Lesleigh Drye

We tried to think of different clients. Quantities were tough.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Domhnall Gleeson

I was in 'Harry Potter,' and nobody on the street recognizes me from that. Nobody on the street has ever stopped me from 'Harry Potter!'

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Tariq Aziz

We don't have any relationship with the Taliban, ... We didn't recognize the Taliban.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

Cesar Romero

You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Michael Schenker

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

Leslie Caron

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

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.

Bill Burr

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Olivia Munn

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

Jack Johnson

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Bill Mitchell

He will when he watches it on TV later.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Don Cheadle

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.