Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Bishop

We want to tell stories and produce integrated brands in which the content created is delivered to audiences in new and exciting ways. Wireless is an emerging platform which we feel is a core component of our business moving forward.

Lisa Gansky

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

Paul Dergarabedian

The Potter franchise is just irresistible to moviegoers. The combination of the Potter books and the love audiences have for the movies conspired a big opening weekend.

Brian Peccia

The potential for this play is to sweep the audience into this world that they're not familiar with. Our general consensus about that hillbilly lifestyle is that they're inbred and ignorant, but they're not that type of people. They believe what they believe, and they believe it very strongly.

John Pavlik

We are looking forward to going back to where the whole thing started. In a sense, it will be an exciting return to yesteryear, but it also brings the awards to a theater that has been specifically designed to make the show exciting for the audience in the theater as well as a brilliant television program.

Dixie Carter

We're in a very, very fortunate situation where every week we have a full 'Impact' Zone out of Universal Studios-Orlando, and probably 90 percent of that audience is from all over the country and from different parts of the world. We're lucky that those people get to come to us.

Alan Vega

We started out in England with a couple of shows, and then in Berlin and then France. It was really amazing. The audiences have been wonderful.

Nick Ferguson

Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.

Jonathan Murray

When you think of the number of hours that go into casting, shooting and assembling the tape into a coherent story, ... it's not an easy process to do. For our audience, it's a show that's very 'relate-able.' It's a lot of fun to watch because you can see people have personal disasters, which is something our audience really enjoys watching.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Colin Channer

We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

Nigel Barker

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Craig Turner

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

Joe Condit

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Charles Caleb Colton

With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Charles Caleb Colton

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

Walter Gossett

There I was, for several hours, directing traffic with a parrot on my shoulder. It was a blast!

Vikram Rohit Shetty

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Joe Cornish

I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

Steve Buscemi

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Stanley Tucci

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

Mike White

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Bill O'Reilly

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

William Shakespeare

Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Deepak Chopra

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Charlie Trotter

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

Bill Rodgers

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Catherine Bell

We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.

John Dickerson

It's just a matter of time now before he leaves the race.

Michael Hogan

It's just one of those things that leave you in a state of disbelief. It's just a devastating loss.

Gene Strusz

It's kind of a sad day when they all leave after 14 days.

Peter Smid

A man would tell her how much (marijuana) to leave in the room,

Johnny Damon

They know it's a business. They know I wasn't the first to leave and I'm not going to be the last.

William Novelli

They don't want to leave traditional Medicare and go into new private sector programs.

Rabbi Zell

They took leave of us doing what they loved. They took leave of us traveling.

Linda Barrabee

For ESPN, it means trying to get people to leave another carrier, and the way to do it is with something different. The market is primed for differentiation.

David Sedaris

I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.

John Ray

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Moby

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Kelly Jones

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Lester Bowie

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

LL Cool J

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

Pope Francis

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Samuel Goldwyn

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Chris Cleave

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

David Brenner

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

Denise Crosby

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Aaron Spelling

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Charlotte Bronte

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Charisma Carpenter

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

Charles Rangel

I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Edward Hopper

Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Arnold Newman

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Chester Himes

There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Chanel Iman

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Bill Maher

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Gary Loveman

It's not simply an inconvenience, ... It's a public safety problem.

Don Powell

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Bernard Goldberg

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Bill Maher

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

Edward Klein

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

James King

We bucked the trend in radio research. We did what no else said could be done.

Marilyn Monroe

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Ashley Highfield

It's all about coexistence - video didn't kill the radio star, after all.

Alan Moore

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

Al Pacino

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Derek Jeter

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Agnes Varda

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Caroline Kennedy

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

Carine Roitfeld

Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

Kate Micucci

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Herbie Hancock

You don't know what that's going to sound like; you just do it because the urge is there.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Carl Jung

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Calvin Trillin

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Evan Osnos

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

David Dinkins

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

Denzel Washington

I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.

Denis Leary

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

Carlos Castaneda

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

Aasif Mandvi

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

Alan King

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Alan Kay

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Charles de Gaulle

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

Chester Brown

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.