Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Ian Mckellen

If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

Gwen Moore

I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district.

Zadie Smith

I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

Vivek Wadhwa

The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.

Abraham Lincoln

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Mark Geragos

The police orchestrated a press conference starring Amber Frey (Peterson's admitted lover) that was carried live on television in January, almost four full months before Scott was even arrested let alone arraigned in this matter. Before the current defense team was in place, Modesto police had held at least six televised press conferences.

Beeban Kidron

The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Brad Ack

We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option.

Mike Shanahan

I was in denial at that time. I read the quote the next day and I thought I might have been pushing a little bit.

Matthew Fox

Jack is a very scientific man, very logical and obviously with everything he has seen on this island, he's going to have to find a way to snap out of this denial and start confronting this real reality he's existing in.

David Delainey

I think I said I was in denial and that I just wasn't taking full responsibility for what I'd been part of and I was trying to protect myself, No, I'm telling the truth.

Jeff Zucker

He expressed the position that NBC is in, ... We're in a rebuilding phase. Nobody's in denial about that.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Thaddeus Mathis

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

Bill Watterson

What state do you live in? Denial.

Bob Inglis

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Zach Johnson

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

Warren Zevon

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Whitney Cummings

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

Connie Mack

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Chris Bohjalian

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

Brian De Palma

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

David Cone

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Vidya Balan

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Clint Eastwood

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Jessa Gamble

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

Jeff Horner

I wore it longer than I should have.

Richard Branson

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.