Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Waters

We have to make money or they're never going to give it to us. Christine understands that. Let's be realistic here. We don't have a grant anymore. We have a budget. And she really wants and believes and thinks of a way for these weirdo movies to make money.

Phil Klay

I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.

Eric Fehrnstrom

The governor understands this is a complex case and he believes the panel should take the time necessary to do a complete and thorough job.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

Reggie Hayward

They were in great position to kick the field goal and win the game, ... For a second there, I thought about scooping it and trying to score, but my common sense kicked in. It was like, 'Get the ball. Live another down.'

Tom Schlesinger

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Toba Beta

There is no UFO and also there is no alien..at least not in common minds and references.

Norman Finkelstein

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

Stewart Butterfield

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.

Virginia Postrel

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.

Corin Nemec

I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Andrew Vachss

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tiger Woods

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Steven Wright

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Steven Wright

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Steven Wright

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Gerald Gray

To the man who got shot, I apologize.

Clara Schumann

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

H. L. Hunt

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

Norman Ford

The question ""Who ought to be boss?"" is like as ""Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?"" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Dorothy Stratten

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Robin Williams

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Bill Owen

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!

Christian Louboutin

Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.