Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Berry

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

Cecelia Ahern

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

Carl Maria von Weber

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Ashley Tisdale

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

Arnold Schoenberg

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Aron Ralston

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

Padgett Powell

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

Mack Brown

We wanted to make sure he wasn't color blind.

Rachel Bilson

I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

Randy Houser

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

Raoul Dufy

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Ray Winstone

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?

James Blake

Well, probably, keeping my eyes on the road, making sure I get here all right,

Rick DiPietro

We were going to give him a ticker-tape parade when he showed up, ... but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

Jeff Probst

You'll see many people on their back, on their knees, throwing up, eyes rolling back.

Jim Wood

You kind of open your eyes wide and say 'I've got to make the call,

Dwayne Jones

I think I've opened a lot of eyes.

Kim Komando

It has opened our eyes and minds to possibilities. Now that we're not tied to offices and wires and poles, now what can we do?

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Michael Foreman

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Gabriel Mann

But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

Zaha Hadid

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

Zach Braff

That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Gail Carriger

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

CC Sabathia

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

Carrie Vaughn

What the hell kind of name is Kitty for a werewolf?

Carl Perkins

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Bette Davis

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

Berenice Marlohe

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Ashton Kutcher

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

C. S. Lewis

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

Cecelia Ahern

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core

Carrie Chapman Catt

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Carrie Fisher

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Bill Bryson

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Order doesn't come by itself.

Anthony Storr

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Bill Vaughan

In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

Bill Vaughan

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Bethany Hamilton

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

Ashley Tisdale

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.

Bertrand Russell

Choose your parents wisely.

Bela Karolyi

You are already winners every time you step into this gym. And, parents, you are to be congratulated.

Brooks Yang

We need to remember that we won?t always be playing for our parents.

Hosea Ballou

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction....

Hannah Kent

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

Thomas Brinkman

You always think parents don't know. Parents know a lot more than you think they know.

Steven Spielberg

I was saddened that after long negotiations and many compromises we were unable to come to terms with Universal's parent company, GE.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Chris Soule

It hasn't been the planned season, but it is what it is.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Sarah Allen

I had planned to adopt. I was single.

Stacie Temple

We had not planned to grandstand on the issue. We simply planned to do the responsible thing with taxpayers' money.

Melaney Arnold

We want to make sure that everything we have planned is in place. This is something we've been working on for a very long time.

Tim Starkey

That's something we planned on using. We just weren't sure when we'd pull the trigger on it.

Genderen Stort

They will postpone the deportations that were planned for tomorrow.

Bill Fisher

Things don't work out as planned all the time,

Brad Goreski

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

Ruth Bernhard

I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.

Joe Wiegand

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

A. J. Liebling

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Ulysses Yannas

Olympus has no printing capability. Opal and Onyx would give them the printing capability.

Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Charles Revson

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Darren Gibbs

It will be a while yet before we are printing better numbers.

Andy Serkis

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

Larry Pope

We get contribution requests all the time, ... We're not going to give $10 here and $100 there. We want to make a difference.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Bob Goin

no such request formally made so I don't know where that is.

Mike Hargrove

We'll probably send him to the instructional league. I'm not sure, but we've been talking about it.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

Marc Shaiman

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Ricky Williams

We talk about life, we talk about our philosophies. He always sends me books. It's a different kind of relationship.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Mike Tice

I think more than anything that is what I've put my thumb on,

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Arthur Baer

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Bruce Schneier

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Ben Casnocha

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Adam Schiff

Too much under the thumb of the Iranians.

Vidya Balan

Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

Adam Arkin

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

Anne Heche

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

Ellen G. White

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.

Bethenny Frankel

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Bob Bauman

That was a lot of weight off their shoulders.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

Chanel Iman

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

Cathy Guisewite

This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.

Cathy Guisewite

Wake me up when I'm a size 5.

Cass McCombs

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.