Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Michaels

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Seth Shostak

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

Gil Cates

Look, I would be disappointed if I did a show in which people didn't complain about something. It would have to be so banal and so white-bread.

John Fusco

Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

Geraldine McCaughrean

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Linda Allen

Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell.

Ken Smith

Having to get more than one market pass hasn't been on the same level of complaints as high hotel rates and other hospitality costs.

Dexter Williams

Whatever Josh allegedly did, I'm very shocked because Josh is a good kid. Since he's been with us, our relationship has been good. We didn't have any complaints from teachers or anything.

John Jones

We try to look for solutions rather than just complain about the problems of being poor.

Liz Smith

We took all the technological know-how that we had and took all the things women complained about and married the two.

Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Saint Francis de Sales

He who complains, sins.

Wim Wenders

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

Carlos Tevez

In every game I'm offended by the referees. It's embarrassing to complain about this to the press, but I just can't play normally. It's like they don't want an Argentine to succeed in Brazilian soccer. If nothing changes, I think it will be difficult for me to stay.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.