Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Glenn Tipton

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

Will Yun Lee

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

Warren Stephens

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Vivek Wadhwa

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Scott Olson

The only real configuration work is basically just deciding what policies you want to enforce in your network and configuring our device to help you do that.

Gilles Villeneuve

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Paul Stoddart

That was the happiest day of my life, not just in Formula One. Full stop. Proudest day of my life,

Platon

I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.

John Crawford

You'll remember a formula but you can't remember how to use it,

Jay Payton

We get two hits one night and nine runs the next. If someone can come up with a magic formula on why that happens, he could make millions. That's just baseball.

Nick Heidfeld

I won't be able to start the next Formula One race.

Ron Rubin

It doesn't do any good to formulate rules if nobody can live with them. If we had our druthers, we'd like the old rules that we didn't have to watch at all.

Michael Chertoff

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

Yale Hirsch

Those new stocks haven't really helped all that much, but I don't think they've actually hurt all that much, either. Their formula for picking stocks isn't the end-all, but it's what people know.

Nile Rodgers

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Bryant Young

He stepped up to the plate and did what he had to do without overdoing it and using it as a platform for whatever reasons -- PR purposes or whatever. I really respect that.

Ian Mckellen

I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Paul Poley

We recruit as many as we can possibly handle.

Donald Kennedy

We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor,

Marina and the Diamonds

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Danny Ferry

He could possibly be back and participate in the post-season.

Brandon Orr

He got me started as young as you possibly can.

Deborah Moggach

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Lynn Dooley

I don't know what I could ever possibly say to them, because thank you is not enough.

Arno Penzias

I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Boreanaz

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Nicole Holofcener

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Peter O'Toole

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Paul Hogan

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Richard Rossi

I was very ambitious, and I wrote a script that was 180 pages,

LaSheena Brown

That was something new. They were able to get that lob in, but we stuck it out.

David Allen

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Tom Renney

We stuck with it. Definitely, we had to compete.

Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Shirley Manson

There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.

Leon Johnson

Our spinners bowled well as they stuck to the task and bowled well to their fields.

Don Blalock

I said 'who is he?' I was stuck thereafter.

Phil Garner

No, ... He snow-coned it. Stuck to the top of his glove.

Brian Gionta

You thought they were down and out, for sure. But they stuck with it and got some confidence. Once you win the first one, you never know.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Dean Winters

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Max von Essen

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

Julie Smith

Merkel and Chirac would not have worked particularly well together.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.