Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Wall

We take pride in the unique craftsmanship - it's elegant and it's flashy.

Holly Brubach

Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order.

Richard Mille

The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.

Harold Brooks

They were people where the words 'rowdy' or 'beer-drinking' are putting it mildly. She had this elegant house with great artwork. But she made them all feel at home.

Prince Charles

A monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend.

Ted Schadler

It's a jewel. It's beautiful, ... It's just a very elegant device. You want to hold it.

I. Stone

Everyone who has seen it agrees, ... You have to see the Gyre's elegant motion in action. A description just won't do it.

Jochen Zeitz

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.

Chris Hadfield

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

Robin Hobb

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Frederik Pohl

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

Carl Olsen

We make fun of each other, but it is a group of friends, and we are not any more competitive than a fantasy football league. There are no prizes for winning, but people still want to win.

Richard O'Brien

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Sarah Zettel

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Molly Quinn

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

Robert Pattinson

I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything

W. Somerset Maugham

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

David Copperfield

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

T. S. Eliot

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Rajneesh

Illusions are bound to be shattered

Rob Portman

I would say unless we see offers from other countries, particularly the EU, on ... reducing tariffs, we will not be able to see a successful round,

Rebel Wilson

I wrote my own play, 'The Westie Monologues,' about where I'm from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

John Richardson

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Carl Shapiro

I think it's a very thorny issue, ... I didn't feel that I could offer a clear, strong opinion one way or another on it.

GM Howson

We submitted another offer and we'll see where it goes.

Lute Olson

He's doing fine. He called to offer us his congratulations. He's upbeat.

Mike Casey

I did what they wanted, and they offered it, so I think I have it coming,

Robert Duvall

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

Warren Buffett

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.