Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Vance

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Ron Chernow

The mutual fund industry has been very successful at promoting itself in this glamorous way. Mutual funds are actually vast, impersonal bureaucratic structures, and yet they were clever enough to give a human face to the mutual funds.

Kenneth Anger

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

Dick Bruna

A few years ago, I had an exhibition at a museum in Holland where, for the very first time, I saw how much Miffy had changed over the years.

Robert Fitzgerald

After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired.

Sarah Zettel

So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own.

Nora Roberts

Now, I'll say this. I've never taking a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me.

Sarah Vowell

So much of broadcasting hasn't really noticed that Watergate happened, that no one takes the voice of authority seriously anymore.

Vincent Bugliosi

Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Geraint Jones

The team has changed in the last six months, the side we had the success with will hopefully get together again.

Jack Keane

The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.

Irina Slutskaya

The system has changed but people don't change - we still have judges who push the buttons. I just wanted to do my best. I'm so happy I can do it and I just want to do it Thursday.

Mike Scifres

The special teams played well all day, ... Then that punt; that changed things.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Karen Keane

The thing that is really changed is people have become a little more camera-ready. They come more prepared.

Bob Saget

The thing that changed me the most as a person was the play I did in New York,

Bobby Frasor

I've never changed it, never really messed with it.

Karen Ferguson

We did get a look at a lot of young players, and their experience in these exhibition games will be invaluable as the season goes on,

Billy Childish

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.

David Brown

The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.

Bobby Bowden

I am Exhibition B. Joe is Exhibition A. That's all we are. There's a game in there somewhere -- Penn State and Florida State are playing.

Richard Hamilton

I guess we have to get used to it. In the exhibition season, it seems like they (referees) are trying to make a statement.

Kylie Minogue

Part of me is a sexual exhibitionist.

Phil Jackson

It was quite an exhibition for three quarters Kobe put on. I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Budd Booth

That was a big accomplishment for them. They all seem to be playing well together, and we have a lot of youth and depth, so that's encouraging for the next few seasons.

Dave Tragethon

People should make reservations, because if they wait until they get to the mountain we might be full. There are people who come up, make a few runs, come in and party a little bit, then go back out. Then there's those who come just for dinner, the party and the fireworks.

Lori Wachs

People pulled it off with few true disappointments.

Andre Caminada

People are taking some profit because it (the index) rose strongly over the last few days; that's normal.

Lorenzo Romar

People, for some reason, just because Arizona's lost a few games, think that they're down. They're crazy. They've kind of hit a stride. They're very good.

John Biggs

People come in and pawn a few things to get back and forth from work.

Billy Crystal

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Donald Trump

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

Dean Martin

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

David Attenborough

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Robert Barry

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Mason Cooley

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Stephen Wright

One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Glenn Gould

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

A. Hodge

You saw how it ended. I don't think you can say we are not able to play with them.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Helen Lee

And there was a need for an accessories store like this in the area. We saw the opportunity.

Bible Bible

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.