Famous Quotes & Sayings

Budd Schulberg

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Jack Bowman

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

Paul Gallico

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Paul Vixie

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

Paul Vixie

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Peter Stone

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Charles Moore

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.

Michael Gerber

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Jack Bowman

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

George Briggs

I think the success and rhythm we had in the first match with Cozad carried over to the Cambridge match,

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard.

Sid Waddell

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.

Hannah Murray

Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.

Rick Rashid

Our primary research location will always be in Redmond, but Cambridge is a stand-alone lab, ... We're not dictating their research.

Mary A. Ward

But hardly any of us were at all on fire for woman suffrage, wherein the Oxford educational movement differed greatly from the Cambridge movement.

Chris Geere

I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.

John G. D. Clark

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

John Clarke

Many years later I had the privilege of teaching the future Queen of Denmark when she came to Cambridge as Princess Margarethe to take her Diploma.

Gaines Adams

I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.

Yo-Yo Ma

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Elle Fanning

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

Boris Boehm

The overall performance of the market in the last couple of days has been impressive. Investors are locking in profits.

Bryan Cogman

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Carl Reiner

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

Bill Bryson

You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

Bette Davis

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

Ashton Kutcher

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

Ruth Ozeki

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Peter Morgan

Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

Julia Glass

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up!

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Paolo Bacigalupi

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Sarah Dessen

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time.

Shaun Cassidy

I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Sandra Ford

We're very pushed to have our grades on target so we can play. We have to make sure all our homework is done.

Xiao Yaqing

The quality of the bauxite is lower than the top grades in Australia, but it's much better than those in China.

Gov. Carcieri

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Patrick Arney

That's what it's all about. No one knows what's going on right away. You don't know grades or transfers or graduations, so that's why we play these games.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Robert Harrington

It's really a parental choice. If my son's grades aren't up to par, he doesn't go to tournaments and sometimes he doesn't participate in sports.

Brenda Taylor

These people are going to be judging you, and no matter what I say, these grades are going to be final. I need all of your attention. I need 120 percent of your effort.

James Marsh

Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.

Carl Sagan

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

Carl Sagan

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.

Carl Sagan

I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Andy Pettitte

We haven't spent time together like we did in New York.

David Lowery

Whoever did this spent a long time igniting anything they could find.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.