Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Cullum

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano in his kitchen; he had a grand piano in his kitchen. And I thought, 'Well, if Tom Waits has one, then I must.'

Gerald Nicosia

He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac.

Gerhard Schroeder

He has a biography that makes clear that he grew away from the (leftist) scene, and he's done great work for our country.

Joseph Campbell

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

Noel Riley Fitch

Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.

Karen Abbott

I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

Will Rogers

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.

A. S. Byatt

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Sergei Lavrov

The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all.

Kristy Curry

That would have been critical to us. It was a gutsy play by her. Thank goodness she was set.

Katherine Harris

We will all remember these times as some of the most critical and defining in our nation's history,

Conor Maynard

My parents listened to a lot of music when I was really little. They used to listen to people like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and I used to be really into that.

Vijay

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

Rutina Wesley

Hollywood can jack you up and then help you fall, but it can also raise you up.

Russell Tovey

I auditioned for the role of Jamie Mitchell in 'EastEnders,' and it was between me and Jack Ryder, and he got it.

Pierre Salinger

I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Louis Walsh

Michael Jackson is an inspiration and we are approaching him,

Miyavi

Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.

Kristine Fauerbach

You'll see some suede and leather jackets out there, but the linings are silk. Everything is about silk.

Davis III

Whether he was kidding or not, ... Tiger Woods wouldn't say it. Jack Nicklaus wouldn't say it.

John Dewey

Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Lisa Payne

We have no volatile memory, so the tag can go to 'sleep' and still monitor conditions.

Adam Loewen

I don't remember what he said. I've got a short-term memory.

Paul Burrell

Whatever I write about her (Diana) is in memory of her and it is the truth.

Doug Noble

He is mostly the same old person, but he does have memory loss.

Frank Robinson

He has that mentality, ... You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Manny Lawson

Getting a shutout here is going to be a memory for the rest of my life.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

Natalie Williams

Hopefully, we'll be making (a memory) in the next three weeks. That would be a perfect way to end a career.

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.

C. S. Lewis

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

Berkeley Breathed

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

John Edward

I'm seriously considering it, but I haven't made my decision.

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Christine Lavin

I was a very, very serious child, ... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

Steve MacFarlane

If all sides are serious about getting this done before the deadline, I think it can be done.

Dr. Wu

I'm her treating psychiatrist, and she did not know right from wrong.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,

Calvin Baisley

I don't treat him any different. We don't do anything different for him.

Eric Peterson

We treat everyone the same way, and there's no exception.

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

David Sedaris

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

Caroline Flint

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.