Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Josh Elliott

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Carlo Rubbia

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

Jonathan Levine

As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

Jim Lanzalotto

Anyone who has worked for a big brand-name company with a good reputation, and was successful there, has a real advantage, especially in moving to a different industry. Hiring someone is really a leap of faith, and interviewers know they can only tell so much about you from the interviewing process, so having that brand name in your background is important. It's almost like an endorsement.

John Shields

As a judge, you look at the basics of a recipe: Does it make sense, does the ratio of ingredients make sense? And is it a crab soup? Some of the entries we get are almost anything but.

Daron Malakian

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

David Thomas

I've been amazed at how many cases we've been able to turn over to prosecuting attorneys.

Evan Osnos

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

Randy Young

I wanted to help my friend and neighbor Janet and see for myself how people down there are coping. I was amazed at the amount of debris and destruction still evident. It was just a little overwhelming.

Yotam Ottolenghi

After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.

Robert Ingpen

I started down the bottom of the page and I knew I was going to run out of space. Sammy, my grandchild, came into my studio and was amazed by all the buildings. Out of the blue he asked, 'Grandpa, where's the tree-house?' and so I drew him one. It's on the right hand bottom of the page.

Tamsin Greig

I've been so amazed at the number of really professional top-of-their-game women who I know to be intelligent, well educated and brilliant who have said, 'What was it like to snog Matt LeBlanc?'

Chris Berman

I used to be so amazed at all the things ESPN does that it literally made my head hurt just thinking about it. I don't even know how to use all the resources we have.

Ron Nelson

I've never had a player that hot in a one week period. He just amazed all the coaches up there.

Tristan Blackwood

They already won the game. That wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took the shot.

Paul Niemann

It's time for us Christians to come out of the woodwork and take our stand for what's right and what's wrong in our community. I'd like to help our young people, keep them off drugs and get them into the right relationships.

Marianne Williamson

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.

Monica Johnson

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

Peter Davis

I suited the music to particular images on the film.

Halle Berry

It's scary to be that vulnerable on film, ... This movie was all about shedding inhibitions for most of the cast, really, you know, saying things and presenting images that were risky because you never know how people are going to take them.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

Candice Hansen

We will get stereo images within a month.

Charles Barkley

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Stephen King

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Ray Bradbury

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

Norah Jones

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.

Myrtle Reed

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Jim Gaffigan

It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'

Eugene Field

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

George R. R. Martin

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

John Connolly

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.