Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

Thierry Henry

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Imelda May

I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.

Gail Carriger

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

Gillian Armstrong

I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

Gillian Armstrong

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

Yolanda Adams

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

William Fichtner

When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none.

Giraldus Cambrensis

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

Yolanda Adams

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

Billy Graham

Everywhere I go I find that people... both leaders and individuals... are asking one basic question, 'Is there any hope for the future?' My answer is the same, 'Yes, through Jesus Christ.'

Clive Thompson

The people who tend to get the most out of being social thinkers are the people who themselves are helpful. They're always talking or answering people's questions or engaging in productive conversations. They're not being trolls. They're tamping down other people that are being trolls.

Dave Ramsey

I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.

John Grahame

The past month or so that we've had success, we are just competing and battling with a never-say-die attitude. We know we need points. Unfortunately we dug ourselves a hole but I think it shows great character that we came back out and continued to battle. We weren't going to take no for an answer tonight and the guys really responded.

Bel Powley

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Becky G

I interact with my fans mostly through Twitter, and I like to do livestreams about every two weeks, where I say, 'Ask me anything!' and I just sit there with my computer for 15 minutes, taking a break from work, and answering their questions.

Bruce Feiler

All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up.

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

V. S. Naipaul

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

Nawal El Saadawi

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

Joe Tiller

We have utilized the quarterback as a runner, but not as an option guy. We haven't been convinced we can put all the time into the option and the spread passing game and be equally effective at both. We feel we can do that now.

Richard Leakey

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

Philippe Petit

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

Bernard Thibault

We haven't yet convinced the prime minister to withdraw the C.P.E..

Bill Richardson

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

Atharva Veda

Wherever I look, there You are; I am totally convinced of this. Unto whom should I pray? The Lord Himself hears all.

Jim Foster

I think they probably were convinced they couldn't play any worse.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Gianni Agnelli

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Virginia Postrel

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

Jacek Tyszkiewicz

The pavement underneath the asphalt is crumbling. The drainage wasn't that particularly good. The planners back in the 1960's expect only 150,000 vehicles a day.

Mike Quade

The past two or three weeks we've pitched it the way I thought we would from the get-go. This is also the kind of pitching I expect from Mitre.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Chris Allen

The 3 percent kicks in during year three. On paper, we're not expecting to show a profit for the first year; we hope to show a small profit in year two.

Erik Anderson

The 9-hole is my most favorite position in the lineup. Nobody ever expects that player can hit.

Chris Liddell

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Ziggy Marley

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

William E. Conway, Jr.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Clay Shirky

Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.

Evel Knievel

Nothing's worse than a guy who loses fair and square and then whines about it.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Mack Brown

Michael's been doing that for three years, getting everyone lined up right and making adjustments on his own, ... That's why we haven't been able to move him to corner.

Paula Carney

We have sponsors already lined up for next year and now I have everything in place to have it all run smoothly.

LaVonda Wagner

We have some visits lined up, and maybe we'll sign two or three more.

Frostee Rucker

I'm always toast when I'm lined up versus 5.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

William Williams

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

Eric Van Lustbader

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.

Alex Segura

They were all lined up anyway. It's no surprise.

Mike Dove

They were all lined up and ready for us to come in. It's just something you had to see in person.

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.

Ryan Ford

I worry about, consider, and question everything that I'm doing.

Geena Davis

will happen. It's just a question of when.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Peter Smith

Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.