Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Wolfe

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

David Bailey

I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.

Bat for Lashes

I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

David Brown

The advert went along the lines of rather than the promotion company spending $20,000 on advertising computer magazines, they were selling massively reduced original program copies at a fraction of the price you would normally pay. I thought the advert was pretty genuine at the time. I suppose all the other losers thought the same too, eh?

Josh Bernoff

The advertising model is extremely simple and very attractive: you simply put your 30-second commercial in front of the video.

Heather Dougherty

The advertising market is obviously far stronger than a few years ago, and Glam is going after a lot of luxury brands that hadn't yet come online then and who still might be hesitant about it, and offering them a very controlled environment to test the waters,

Ian Rowden

The advertising is starting to move us in the right direction. We are seeing good returns in terms of the influence the advertising is having on perception of food quality, fresh food and variety.

Ben Edelman

The advertisers need to be aware that they are not getting their money's worth -- they have a contract that said they are paying for one thing and they are getting another.

Jonathan Mayers

The amazing thing is we used no traditional advertising.

Nile Rodgers

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

CeeLo Green

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

Lord Byron

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

Seamus Mallon

Those who did it, those who organized it and those who give it any support or credence should know what they are doing is driving the entire community to the brink of more and more and more suffering.

Andrew Davis

Only now, on the brink of financial gamble for the power output, do we suddenly need dry cask storage.

Mary Roach

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

Dale Jr

He just needs to realize that he's right on that brink of really ticking off somebody he doesn't want to tick off. I think he'll figure it out.

Steve Rucchin

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

Mark Vaile

France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,

Yakov Smirnoff

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

Young Jeezy

I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.

Thomas Dekker

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Todd Rundgren

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Willa Fitzgerald

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

William Daniels

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Evel Knievel

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

Ellen Key

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

Yahya Jammeh

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

Iggy Azalea

As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

Ian Mckellen

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Garry Wills

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

Glenn Ford

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

George Allen

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

Donald Trump

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Nicolas Roeg

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.

C. S. Lewis

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

C. S. Lewis

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

Carrie Brownstein

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason?

Becca Fitzpatrick

I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.

Larry McReynolds

We get staff that mirror the population that they're serving.

Jeff Ackermann

We had to look ourselves in the mirror after that one. And we had to regroup after that loss.

DJ Quik

I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Ruth Ginsburg

What is subtle about what is described here?

Norah Jones

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Michael Schudson

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Paul Muni

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Roger Scruton

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.