Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Diane Cilento

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Brennan Manning

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Braylon Edwards

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

Charles Peguy

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Aristophanes

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Britt Ekland

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Carlos Moya

You have to play perfect and wish that he is not going to be at his best. I think today these two things happened.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Brad Miller

Everything went perfect for them. And obviously, we didn't play worth a crap.

Cristiano Ronaldo

If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Mike Figgis

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Sean Paul

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.