Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

Colm Meaney

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Eva Marie Saint

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

Brooke Adams

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Bill Hader

In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

Jacki Weaver

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Maximilian Schell

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Gavin MacLeod

We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren't all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Growing up with my father's legacy, we never felt that we had to do anything, but we were always raised to think: What could be better than to explore the wonders of the world and share that with people? To try and make the world a better place. And I guess it stuck.

Marnie Stern

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

Linda Hamilton

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

Burt Rutan

Mankind does need to move away from where we are to explore somewhere else.

Lonnie Soloff

We do that to explore his ranges of motion.

Dale Tallon

We'll explore all options. We'll pursue every angle. I'll listen to anything on anybody. We're not going to sit still and put up with it. I don't want the players to feel threatened, but enough's enough.

JoAnn Manson

We're not suggesting at this point that women use estrogen for the express purpose of preventing cardiovascular disease. But this does suggest that more research is needed on younger women and recently menopausal women to explore this question. There may be a window of opportunity when women will have some heart protection from estrogen.

Pauline Trigere

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Roger Penske

We have an opportunity to show the world that this is a much different place than it was in 1982, the last time we hosted the Super Bowl. A renaissance is taking place in what was a decaying inner city, and I can't wait for the world to see the new Detroit.

Marilyn Tam

Live by your principles. There's an inner voice in you that truly knows what you want, that's why I do what I do.

James Redfield

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security.

Steven Page

Those of us that have the opportunity to have a mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to make the world a better place.

Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Jack Johnston

He is able to do things with inner armatures that most people don't attempt.

Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Rassie Erasmus

We have to win to regain momentum. Winning is all we are interested in.

Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Jeff Fisher

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Ben Chaplin

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Ben Barnes

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Nick Jonas

I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

Kevin Spacey

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

Mary Kelly

The (anti-virus) system worked, which was quite a relief.

Carl Jacobs

That was quite a ride. We'd be thrilled to repeat it.

Tom Miller

That was quite an accomplishment for us. This is a very tough tournament.

Sam Johnson

We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.

Patrick Chidley

We have been warning that (Placer) would get taken over for quite a long time.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.