Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Hannah

I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.

Michael Buble

I think this might be my favourite thing I've ever done,

Samuel Johnson

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

Eleanor Catton

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

Christopher Masterson

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

John Burnside

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

Rebecca Stead

I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!

Asif Kapadia

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

Eleanor Catton

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Chris Carmack

I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.

Chingy

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Chita Rivera

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.

Chip Conley

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether thats as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

Eddie Murphy

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

Dean Cain

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Daymond John

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

George Herbert

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

Joseph O'Neill

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Dr. Esse

A lot of those could be treated out in the communities.

Alec Baldwin

Actors are treated like suppositories that are inserted into cavities of the movie-going public.

Bobby DeBerry

This week I treated it like Sunnyside versus (the state) of Arizona. That is the way we have to look at it.

Michael Dukakis

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.

Mary Scott

No one should have been treated like that.

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Randy Stone

As it turns out, ... he just can't spell.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

Lorne Michaels

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns turns.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?