Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vikram Seth

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Ellen Key

Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

Jim Berry

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

Cecelia Ahern

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

Carl Maria von Weber

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

Ashley Tisdale

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

Arnold Schoenberg

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

Aron Ralston

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

Padgett Powell

Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

Mack Brown

We wanted to make sure he wasn't color blind.

Rachel Bilson

I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

Gianni Agnelli

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

I'm in the eighth grade and am not the height of the rest of my class. But I don't worry about that. I'm just me!

Barack Obama

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Woody Harrelson

You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more.

Steve Fisher

That was huge. We turned it over 24 times in our last game and eight times in a 10-possession stretch. Without a doubt, it makes a big, big, big difference.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

Jake Palluzzi

That was a huge win for us. It is nice to take some of the pressure of getting eight wins off our back. Now we just have to worry about playing well and getting healthy.

Denny Green

We could go play eight or nine more weeks. The guys have not lost their enthusiasm for playing. Some of those games we let get away, they wish we could get them back.

Jose Vidro

We can't let this go on. I know it's early. It's only eight games, but we have to make this change.

Irving Ravetch

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Imani Hakim

I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Zayn Malik

It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Renny Harlin

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Marco Rubio

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Marilynne Robinson

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

Bobbi Brown

When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.

Fred Bentley

This is not just putting lipstick on the big chicken.

L'Wren Scott

There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.

Walter McManus

This is like putting lipstick on a pig. They're a higher-cost producer than most of their competition. To be the low-price leader, you really need to be the low-cost producer as well.

Carrie Underwood

I love having my hair and makeup done for red carpets, but to have that done every day would be exhausting.

Gail Goestenkors

I don't feel that strain or stress or pressure (of being a No. 1 seed). I feel more relaxed this year than I have any other year, and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the makeup of this team.

Dianna Agron

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

Diane von Furstenberg

I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.

Diane von Furstenberg

It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.

Diane von Furstenberg

I sit in the sink (while applying makeup). I do. I've broken more sinks...I sit in the sink, on top of a big square sink in my bathroom with my feet in the basin so I'm very close to the mirror with the good light, and I'm very comfortable. I also manage to put my two phones in the sink so that nothing, but nothing, could get me out of there.

Chloe Sevigny

I find most men don't like a lot of makeup.

China Machado

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

Cheri Oteri

The makeup person said oh my God what happened to you? I looked like I was in a car accident.

David S. Goyer

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.

Chloe Grace Moretz

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Victoria Justice

My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carrie Coon

I played a lot of moms. You're always too young when you're playing moms. My first kid when I started playing moms was about six months old. And then a month later I was doing another commercial audition and my kid was two, and then about eight months later my kid was 11.

Carrie Fisher

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Carrie Underwood

My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.

Carrie Underwood

The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter.

Carrie Underwood

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Bernadette Peters

I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.

Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

Arsene Wenger

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Rain Bojangles

It is better to be redundant than remiss.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Jeff Buttle

I don't think it will be enough. And that's fine. I'm skating better now.

Priscilla Hill

He has no idea what his skating does to people.

Katarina Witt

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

Michael Peca

Our success comes with skating and being aggressive.

Debi Thomas

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

Tom Brandt

Skating is his stronger suit, but he's worked at getting better at classic.

Nancy Kerrigan

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

Nancy Kerrigan

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Nancy Kerrigan

And I love what I do and I love skating.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

James Rota

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

James Rosenquist

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

Heidi Klum

You have to play tricks for the TV.

Lulu

A solid giggle should do the trick.

Mike Ross

I'm from Las Vegas and all my tricks are magic.

Mark Millar

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Josh Radnor

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.