Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Poehler

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Debra Wilson

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

Debra Wilson

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.

Debra Wilson

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.

Debra Wilson

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Dennis Ross

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Wanda Sykes

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

Red Buttons

I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

Red Buttons

Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Charles Ramsey

We could light this town up if we had to, but we don't intend to do that,

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

William Cohen

We intend to take down that terror network.

Hilly Kristal

We intend to stay. This is not a eulogy. There's no reason why we shouldn't come to an understanding.

Bruce Hamilton

We intend to rebuild, if it's possible, but until everything comes together, we just have to wait. I think it will be possible.

Stephen Ferguson

We intend to put this to rest today.

Sergei Lavrov

We intend to proceed without any sudden moves.

Ken Leavitt

We intend to meet our obligations, one way or another.

Dave Anderson

We aren't going to be running this channel, the public is going to be running it. We intend to manage it.

Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Warren Rudman

The problem the administration has is that the predicates it laid down for the war have not played out. That could spell political trouble for the president, there's no question.

Jason Gehoski

I was very proud of how we (overcame) situations where, last year, we would've laid down. This time, we didn't let that happen.

Chiang Kai-shek

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Peter Eichler

Give them credit, they really picked up their play in the third game. But also I think we laid back a little too much, and that let them come back.

Jason Chimera

It bounced off Kipper and kind of laid there in the crease. It was nice to see the puck just laying there for you.

David Jones

He laid down the gauntlet and his credibility is on the line,

Bunnie Gleason

He laid around all day and wouldn't open any presents without help. He couldn't really sit up. I just thought he had a virus.

James Jackson

He is just laid back and ordinary. He is just easy-going.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Bob Bauman

That was a real surprise. But even though they scored, I don't think it shifted the momentum.

Derian Hatcher

That was probably the single most embarrassing moment I've had in my career.

Mike Sweeney

That was probably the most touching moment of silence I've stood through.

Stephen Byers

We have the investigators on site as they are at the moment and they will give me their preliminary findings as soon as possible.

Carlo Ancelotti

We will see how they are on Sunday because at the moment we can't say anything.

Roy Jorgenson

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Joe Condit

We haven't picked out any specific properties yet. This process is just beginning. It probably will take a year to sort out which ones we want to buy.

Doug Hawkins

We don't have pitchers to strike out 10, so we have to rely on our defense. They picked us up today.

Denise Marshall

I wish I could have picked all of them.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Lee Melchionni

He'll have off nights. Tonight, as a team, we picked him up. We're not worried about J.J.

C. S. Lewis

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C. S. Lewis

We read to know we are not alone.

C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Cathy Moriarty

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

Carrie Underwood

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Bill Blass

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Bill Bruford

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Penn Jillette

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

Tony Ward

What would worry me more is the snippets I've been reading from Gavin about the residential rule,

Dan Auerbach

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Andrea Gibson

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

Christine Taylor

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Fred Armisen

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

Jewel

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

Sherry Turkle

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Tom Cruise

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Patricia Briggs

Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

John Mayer

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.