Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Aziz Ansari

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Kenneth Branagh

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Catherine O'Hara

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Kathryn Prescott

I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life.

Arthur Conan Doyle

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Amy Lowell

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Anderson Cooper

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Ann Cleeves

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Jane Fonda

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Clint Walker

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.

Criss Angel

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Dan Harmon

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

E. B. White

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Douglas Hurd

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.