Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lizzy Caplan

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Burn Gorman

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.

Mark Margolis

I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's a wonderful place; it looks over the Hudson River. I can see 30 miles into New Jersey. My landlord would like me to die because the rent is very low. I'm trying to outlive him. He can get a lot more if I disappear.

Judy Swanson

Here you have a couple, and it requires both of them to work to make ends meet. If you want to get a job in Myrtle Beach you can, but it may not pay enough to get an apartment or a house. It's discouraging, and that's the major problem.

Brandon Boyd

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

Learned Hand

I remember he loved the patent cases, ... He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. . . . He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision.

Jacki Weaver

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

Paul Gordon

In these interviews, you get a feel for some of a person's traits, but you don't really get to know them in about 15 minutes. Now, I'm going to pick them apart and get to know them a lot better, more on a friend level.

Kim Smith

This is a small district. If they're looking for that kind of money, those kind of benefits, they should be in a bigger district. They're welcomed to leave. They're welcomed to work some place else that can pay them what they want. We can't, it's that simple!

J. Taylor

We tried a bigger guy on him, then we tried a guy with a little bit of speed and I thought he did a great job of adjusting. I think 25 points speaks for itself.

Dan Dierdorf

As I look back on it, I know our season ended the day J.V. died because I know none of us got over it. You just lose focus. All of a sudden you find out in some ways how childish you've been in the way you've devoted your whole life to this game. Then all of a sudden it hits you that there are bigger things in play.

Tom Romance

Dusty is a little longer off the tee. He's a little bigger than last year. Drew came out and fired lights out at The Den, but after that he wasn't Drew. He wasn't sharp. I think he was a little tired. He had every reason to be. He played a whole lot of golf at the end of the summer.

A. Hodge

We were there the whole time. Now success has come around a second time, and it's bigger than ever.

Tom Demko

We just kind of went back to what we were doing all year. It was hard, I'm not going to lie, but we're not going to change much and the kids have their eyes on a bigger prize right now.

John Bluem

We just hope that the Ohio State University community comes out and that the weather is good. We're hoping that we could raise close to $20,000 this year in one night. The bigger the crowd the better, so we hope the community and the students come out to support this great cause.

Rob Subbaraman

You have an economy that has just turned out to be bigger than everyone thought. It's growing around 10 percent, and you have reserves growing to new record highs every month. That's providing a lot of arguments for China to move a bit quicker on the currency front.

Sal Calabrese

You guys need to get yourselves built up physically. We got knocked off all the balls. All of you guys that are in 10th and 11th grade, you've got the rest of the year to get in the weight room and get bigger and get stronger.

Cam Gigandet

I can get bored with any show, when it goes on too long.

Alexa Chung

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning,

Rob Lowe

If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.

Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Scott Westerfeld

Never bored on a hoverboard.

Tony Robbins

If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

Rosie Perez

I get bored in Hollywood.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tommy Chong

Boredom is a disease, too.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Mircea Monroe

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do.

Peter Cullen

I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.

P. L. Travers

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

Pat Burns

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

Paul Butcher

The cast of 'Zoey 101' are like a family to me.

Paul Broun

I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Peter Schroecksnadel

Maybe they were scared of the police, we don't know. They got in touch and we're going to talk about it.

Chris Beatty

Maybe the senator should think about when he was 17 years old.

Tim Nelson

Maybe it's because of Boeing. Maybe it's because people here have a technical bent. Or maybe it's because it's just plain fun. Whatever the reason, Seattle is a mecca for modeling.

Peter Capaldi

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

Gary Chryst

Maybe it's because I never wore white tights,

Taylor Momsen

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

Oscar Goodman

Maybe I can get some straw men out here and we can make a buck,

Peter Rodman

Maybe he was speaking to his people, who would like to see the violence subside,

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Mike Davidson

People do not understand how powerful that water is.

Doug Flynn

People do feel better about investing. But they are still very skeptical about the recovery and their expectations are way down.

Peter Thiel

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

David Green

People are walking all over town just going crazy. I've never seen it like this before.

Ahmed Ali

People are very, very provoked, ... They are boiling.

Richard C. Armitage

People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.

Jennifer Smoter

People did need ample time to be able to transition to an alternative therapy.

Mark Baker

We don't pretend to be holier than thou.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Tamsin Greig

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Levi Stukes

We need to come together even more now since we're in a downfall.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Tad Williams

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Tad Williams

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

Samantha Shannon

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

Tom Robbins

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Tom Folsom

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

Todd Haynes

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.

Steve Wozniak

Atari is a very sad story.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Anna Jameson

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Alex Steffen

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

Albert Schweitzer

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.