Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Yanis Varoufakis

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Imelda May

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Donald Trump

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Thomas Friedman

There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.

Irwin M. Jacobs

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Gail Carson Levine

I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Yuri Milner

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Vanessa Hudgens

My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

Vanessa Hudgens

It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Rebecca West

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

C. S. Lewis

They Open A Door And Enter A World

Carrie Brownstein

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

Bill Bryson

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

Bill Bryson

We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

Bette Davis

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

Bill Bryson

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

Charles R. Swindoll

The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith - which He has given - and then push it open and walk through.

Steve Thompson

We have an historic doorway that is opening here. It is potentially very good for everybody who lives on the river.

Chuck Keller

The 2 by 2 game will give players more variety and a little extra excitement.

Pedro Marquez

That was great to see him throw 95-10 (in the discus. There is a lot of potential there with him being just a freshman. He's a little guy, but he's working on his technique and that's really helping him. He's one of the kids that is just following Kevin around and doing the extra stuff.

Cory Anderson

We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of extra outs, meaning errors.

Jim Tracy

We had opportunities. But you need that one extra hit, the one that puts you back in the game.

Sidney Nozaki

We'll play a tough team in Kamehameha. They can hit the ball. We can't give them extra outs. If we give them extra outs, we'll be in trouble.

John Read

We were going down and Duncan killed the first extra end and we played the next one and managed to win it.

Jim Segar

We have been working hard the last two weeks. We have spent some more time training and we had the extra legs.

Stephen Spach

You have to do as much as you possibly can. It just helps your stock. Every little thing extra you can do, special teams, long snapping, fullback, tight end, it makes you multidimensional. The key is to get them to want to lose you less.

Kary Hadden

You'll be able to tell on match day who's been putting in the extra work. It's a sacrifice.

Edward Snowden

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

Nancy Gibbs

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

Adam Scott

That would finish off the year, and I'd be pretty happy.

Joe Godinho

That was the third time he had to wrestle his kid in the last three weeks. It was a tighter match, but Kevin finished strong.

Chris Johnson

That was the first thing that hit me. I knew I had to find a place to try and finish my senior year, so I'd have a chance.

Jeong Jang

That was the first long putt today. Good finish going into tomorrow.

Lauren Bechtold

That was something that's exceptional to be able to hear. To finish with all of these girls, it was incredible.

Brian Curran

That was a huge goal. Samy had a great all-around game and that was a nice way for him to finish it off.

John Ellinger

We have two games left, we need to win an away game. We want to win, we don't want to finish the season with 12 straight losses.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Arsenio Hall

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

Kristy Curry

That was the big question from the media so I guess I had to talk about it. I don't think it was me harping on it but when there is something not going well that seems to be the focus. It wasn't always pretty, but this team has found a way to win.

Yanis Varoufakis

Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Randy Petersen

The policy doesn't look overly generous, but right now this is the only game in town.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Malcolm Jenkins

The Penn State game was crazy. There were like 110,000 people there, and they were ready for it.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Nolan Bushnell

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

Joe Crawford

We have a lot to prove. Every game we lost I think we should have won. We need to play hard in the SEC Tournament to make the NCAA Tournament.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Larry Foote

We just didn't want them to score today.

Ron Forman

We just come out and play ball. We never really try to come out and score this much, but sometimes it just all comes together.

Sergio Garcia

You just have to turn the scoreboard around. That?s the only thing.

Stephen Ames

I think I was watching it with Vijay. I was watching the scoreboard from the first hole, so I knew.

Christine Sinclair

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

Rick Adelman

We made him work, he took 20 shots to score 15 points.

Derek Jeter

I was thinking triple all the way. It's good, too, because it usually takes a triple to score Jorge.

Chelsea Baker

We can play with anyone, we can win any way and if they score a lot we'll score more.

Nick Haynes

We can play pretty well, but we just can't seem to find somebody that can score for us,

Ron Williams

He blurted out that Taylor was in trouble.

Bonnie Henrickson

This is not a knee-jerk thing. We've just go to get better. Ivana and Taylor will be the first ones off the bench.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Natalie Coughlin

Ties are pretty rare. I don't think I've ever tied anybody.

Matt Brown

I kind of tied the two together (music and art).

Forel Davies

Another title, but we'll probably be tied with Vista, so it's not so great. That tarnishes it a little for me.

Bill Bryson

It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron.

Tino Martinez

The '98 Yankees never won 11 in a row.

Mike Fox

We've made a lot of advances. We won our first game, which was a big step.

John Spiak

You kind of wonder what's going on in the state.

Robert Redford

Julie, it's wonderful to see you. This is Lena.

Paul Terry

We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.

Jason Taylor

We haven't done anything yet. We won one game. Big deal.

Gregory Peck

I won one of these in 1947 and it was very encouraging, and it's very encouraging now,

Krystal McKenzie

I think if we had set it up a little differently we would have won it.