Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

M. Night Shyamalan

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Jim Murray

The only bad thing about Spokane is that there's nothing to do after 10 in the morning

Lorraine Bracco

The only bad thing is that I've been smoking cigarettes. I smoke in the play, so I've limited myself to smoking only in the theater.

David Land

The potential for going through $70 a barrel is certainly there, it wouldn't take a lot of bad news. You've got the U.S. hurricane season in the not too distant future, as well as the driving season.

Ron Aldy

The postseason depends on who's playing better that night and you don't have to have but one bad night.

Jeff Gundy

The positive is they found something they can fix. It's been a string of bad fortune for him injury-wise, but we're happy the doctor has been able to locate something we can do something about.

Ashley Josephson

We are pretty disappointed we didn't come out right away and play our 'A' game. We had a pretty bad first half, not intense enough. ... The first half is what killed us.

Charles Spurgeon

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Lorraine Toussaint

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Lisa Cholodenko

Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.

Romola Garai

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Terri Bushman

We still won't have had the whole cast practice together up until three weeks before production.

Mark Burnett

So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.

Neil Flynn

I've always liked shows that have a strong cast of secondary characters. One of the greatest examples ever I would say is 'The Simpsons.' If you think about it, you could name 100 characters recognizable from that show. I think 'Scrubs' has done a good job of having a strong team coming off the bench.

Neel Mukherjee

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

W. S. Gilbert

We found historic letters showing that Lord Stanley directed his aid-de-camp to travel to England to purchase the Cup. That was an interesting historical find.

Atal Vajpayee

A meeting ground will have to be found. Our efforts will be directed towards that,

Hank McKinnell

They had been putting the same percentage increase on each quarter, and in an unusually low quarter like last year that didn't' work, ... So we directed them to take down their second-quarter estimates through our guidance.

Paul Schrader

It's an old-fashioned romance of the highest order, a real melodrama, which I wrote and directed and financed. Nobody paid me to do this film. If a studio had made it, everyone would be saying that I had whored out, but in fact I had to fight to raise the financing, so if I did whore out, I whored out to my own melodramatic side.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Brenda Shields

A set of universally enforced rules and regulations directed at increasing the safety of cheerleading should be implemented.

Lily James

People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.

Bill Nelson

Sometimes we get lost in seeing the entire forest for the particular trees, but I think we need to pull back and see that this threat of radical terrorists is now being directed not only at us in the homeland, but it is being directed at a source of energy upon which the western industrialized world has become dependent.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

Charles Stanley

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Charles Spurgeon

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Alan Watts

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

Alan Watts

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

Alan Watts

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

Alan Bennett

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Alan Arkin

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

Charlie Munger

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

Tracy Austin

It's about being with friends and raising money, ... To me, that's most important.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Jack Black

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Gretchen Wilson

I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Charles Stanley

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Daymond John

Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Doug Flynn

We're in inning 2 of the new ballgame. So get in and let it go the rest of the innings.

Jim Tracy

We're not going to say we're not going to see him for the rest of the year, ... We're going to take it day-by-day.

Charlize Theron

My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Debbie DeCarlo

Word got out. He only got two cookies. The rest went in 20 minutes.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Tom Gregory

They really are the ruby slippers of our time.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Morris Peterson

When we were off to our 1-15 start I think that's when they did the poll.

Becky Hammon

We're starting to come together a little more. We're starting to put it together.

Keith Guttin

When we get that done, we'll start turning it up as a team.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Sam Bush

It's just wonderful that he's still here, that he's made it this far.

Alice B. Toklas

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Ann Wilson

For Ed to do what he did, it?s a wonderful thing,

Steve Spencer

It's all about snow. We've been getting wonderful snow.

Katherine Paterson

It was a wonderful way to be awakened.

Rhonda Faehn

It was wonderful to see they were very calm, yet so aggressive.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Jeremy Osborne

It's very ambiguous. It was specifically written to be ambiguous.

Terrence McNally

This play was written for these 11 actors just as 'Master Class' was written for Zoe Caldwell, or 'Frankie and Johnny' was written for Kathy Bates,

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Paul Theroux

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.