Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Isabella Bird

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Evangeline Lilly

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

Lauren Morgens

The only rats are the ones she brings aboard to play with.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

The political moment is not good and football always brings happiness to the Brazilian people, especially if we succeed in qualifying for the cup,

Bill Belichick

The overall competitive nature he brings as an owner and as a franchise (still exists),

Barry Hyman

The payroll numbers were extraordinarily supportive for the economy. But counter to that, the report brings back the Fed and inflationary prospects, and that's why you see just a modest up day.

Dolly Parton

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

Ravi Zacharias

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

Francisco Goya

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

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.

Alice Walker

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

Malala Yousafzai

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

Malala Yousafzai

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

Bradley Whitford

We have all lost a dear, dear brother.

Kenny Leon

We've lost a great writer, I think the greatest writer that our generation has seen and I've lost a dear, dear friend and collaborator,

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Alexander Dubcek

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Tyler Perry

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

Ismail Kadare

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.

Ben Carson

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Bruce Coville

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Christine Gregoire

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

Victoria Osteen

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

Nat Wolff

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

C. S. Lewis

Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Donald McKay

I feel the better way is to 'begin' and then see where your imagination takes you. That's where the enjoyment of writing comes into full flower.

Judy Thompson

I find it extremely enjoyable, I'm far more patient and I think I know a lot more.

Friedrich Muller

If an occasion arises, friends are pleasant; enjoyment is pleasant, whatever be the cause.

Paolo Maldini

He enjoys the game and that is the only thing that you can know about him at the moment, ... If he really wants to be a footballer than he will know how to handle all the pressures there will be for him.

Jerome Forneris

I have bowled my entire life and gained great pleasure and enjoyment from the sport. This is a tremendous honor.

Clare Callahan

I can tell if someone auditioning has good coordination, and hearing, but I look for the enjoyment in what they are doing too.

Henry Samueli

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Shane Koyczan

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

Guus Hiddink

I think the reaction is very nice because it's a reaction of enjoyment, it's not violent...I think there were one or two injuries where people dislocated their shoulders waving flags.

Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Vince Young

That would be special, knowing how long we've been together, how many different things he has taught me to become the man that I am, and how to better myself on the football field and understanding the leadership of a quarterback, and different roles you have to do as a quarterback.

Buddy Bell

That was very instinctive. I don't know if there are many guys on the field who could have done that.

Andy Taylor

That way we'll be on a level playing field and remedy the harm to the party has put on us so far.

Mack Brown

We could not stop them. We couldn't get them off the field.

Tommy Aldridge

We had opportunities, but we were 2-for-10 from the field in the first quarter and we missed our first 12 three-point attempts. We shot 45 percent in the second and third, but that's when we had 15 of our 22 turnovers.

Gary Smith

We were specializing in track and field alone.

Hines Ward

We have a guy that when it's time to play around, he's joking with the players. But when it's time for business, to get on that field and get better, he's all about business. We respect that. It makes you want to go out and fight even harder for the guy.

Bob Kitchens

We have a full field in every race, and a quality field, too.

Daniel Radcliffe

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

Reese Witherspoon

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

Dan Boyd

That was indicative of the trust he had in his principals. I was really fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him.

Mike Rutter

That was a very physical game. Amarillo is a very good team, and we're fortunate to get way with a victory.

Skip Harlicka

That was a special time in our lives in a number of ways. I was very fortunate to be in that group and to have played for Frank McGuire.

Dave Bristow

That was a good bust. We were very fortunate that someone saw this.

Danielle Renfrew

We were so fortunate to shoot in Columbia. We were just overwhelmed by the support offered by the community.

George Crooks

We have a good group of hard-working kids. Hopefully when the time comes, their weight will be scattered out like it was this year. With only 17 kids, we were very fortunate to be able to spread them out to make a team.

David McGinnis

Usually this time of the year, the weather is real hit or miss. We've been real fortunate most of the time, getting all the games in, and it looks good this week.

Dean Montzingo

We need to learn to run better offense. The kids are talented and gifted but we need to learn to play more unified. We do what we need to do to get the lead and we kind of stop.

Avery Johnson

I think I'm gifted to do what I'm doing, that this is what I'm here for.

Laurie Fisher

He's a tremendously gifted player with a phenomenal understanding of the game.

Dick Gephardt

gifted national leader and a model public servant.

Mike Kemp

We're a pretty good goal-scoring team, top to bottom. Parse is the high profile guy, but we've got a group of gifted scorers.

Ernie Kent

But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something.

Donald Ray Pollock

J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Robert Downey

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Caroline Rhea

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Paul Little

The outlook for the group is very positive.

Kate Becker

We can't let it be cut. They're just a really powerful group of people. It's going to have a ripple effect.

Scott Rudin

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

Raymond Kelly

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Bob Wright

We hadn't been on the line more than 30 minutes when we spotted our first group of seven.

Terrance Haywood

To lose all of those guys and to come back with a group of young kids, none of them having any varsity experience. And just to see where we started from, and where we're at now, it was huge.

Jeff Tageant

We have a laid back group of kids.

Phil Savage

We have a group of linebackers now and we will sort through them and see which ones serve us best.

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Dinsha Patel

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

Cindy Moore

We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Ginni Rometty

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

Anne Hathaway

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Geoffrey West

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

Julie Sanders

We had to scale back down to about 30 interns this year.

Reid Hoffman

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Skip Bertman

That would be something very special. It's already been a very special season.

Jimmy Calderwood

That was very disappointing on such a special day,

Donald Trump

I think this wedding is one of the most special ones we've done.

Becca Fitzpatrick

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

S. Walker

We do most of our own work. Only specialty work is sublet out to other contractors.

Derek Moyers

We really think, if we can stay healthy, it can be a special season.

Zac Taylor

We have something special going here, so we're just going to keep going.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

Avery Cutshaw

I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Bill Vaughan

No one can bring to God what you can.

Roland Williams

That was a very unique way to win it, but I'll take it,

Fred Shafer

We're unique to this area, that's how we survive.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

B. B. King

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Jacob Bronowski

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

Brick Storts

I find it uniquely interesting it started today.

Dianne Wiest

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.