Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gillian Armstrong

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Zoe Kravitz

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Bayard Taylor

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

Ali Tabassi

The applications, services, and the ecosystem required also have to be considered as well as the intellectual-property rights and the royalty fees that manufacturers have to pay.

Richard Sheridan

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency

Roger McGuinn

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Peter Singer

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

Charlotte Bronte

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Jennifer Pizer

What makes it discriminatory is that it requires women to present themselves in a particularly feminine way.

Kevin McDonald

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Antonio Gates

When I'm in a game, something might be hurting, like a finger, and this sounds so feminine to come to a trainer and be like, 'You know, my fingernail hurts,'

Antonio Carlos Jobim

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Lenny Kravitz

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

Tracy McMillan

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

Charlotte Rampling

My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminine body in masculine shapes. The androgynous look suits me.

Angela Merkel

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman as in the past few months. ... In return, I have publicly recognized my feminine identity to an unusual measure.

Councilman Banks

We have worked together. We've held up our end.

Connie Clark

We have team rules and every member of our program is held accountable for them.

Chauncey Billups

We've done nothing. We've held serve with home-court advantage.

LaMont Jordan

We've done enough talking. What we have to do now is step up, be held accountable, realize we're professional athletes, that we have a job to do, and we have to go out there and do it,

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Peter Gallagher

When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.

Ron Zonen

Michael Jackson should be held responsible for what he did,

Denise Marshall

You can give away memberships to gyms, but unless the person is held accountable, they are not likely to keep up with it.

Clint Hurdle

I thought he took a very positive first step. He didn't get outside of himself. In the first inning he was mid-20s in pitches, but he battled. He didn't give up a big inning after that. Any time there was traffic, he held runners well. He made pitches when he had to. He mixed his pitches. He held the left-handers very effectively. A big outing for him and a big win for us.

Vanessa Hudgens

That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

Justin Gatlin

The Penn Relays is the only meet in the world where, when I walk into the stadium, I get chills.

Chris Jericho

Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Jeb Bush

We have ample resources to meet whatever comes,

Ken Fields

We could meet the needs of New York State.

Jinny Sims

We could get to a table within hours. We could meet overnight and we could avert tomorrow.

Patricia McBride

It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

Donna Hayes

We were here all year. We were ready, willing and able to meet and now it's too late.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Tim Zasada

It all starts with the nose guard. You're just worried about getting the snap off and not getting hit.

Dale Jr

We've got to tweak the nose a little. We're talking tenths of a percent - not a whole lot.

Rick Thomas

He had some momentum, like he was running down hill. I flowed over and got my nose busted.

Chevy Chase

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

Chandra Wilson

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Charles M. Schulz

A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

John Felmy

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

Janet Reno

I think he had a responsibility to see that the processes were in place that could make this system work as it should work in a democracy.

Rick Anthony

There were processes that had to be improved.

William Cavendish

Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.

Kim Weston

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

Thomas Fuller

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Saint Ignatius

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Annie Dillard

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Jay Griffiths

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

Hannah Arendt

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Matthew Engel

Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.