Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Green

This does turn the convoy into a bit of a farce,

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!

Kimi Raikkonen

Coming into the last part I ran a little bit wide and locked the rear end so I lost some time but I knew I was quick enough on the first part,

John Clemmow

Commodity prices have come off (recently) and there is a perception (in the market) that mining companies have run a bit far and a bit fast.

Rod Parsley

Concerning the brief 32 year history of this nation (The Bahamas), my heart wanted to rejoice and I do rejoice with you, but I trust that your heart will feel just a bit saddened with mine.

Valentino Rossi

Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit more complacent going into 2005, and following on from that, does this year being so difficult, make the team tougher and ready for 2006?

Anthony Crescenzi

Corporate treasurers are getting a bit nervous about the equity market, ... They are probably concerned about some spread widening that could come with a deeper decline inequities.

Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Steve Sabol

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Jesse Ventura

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

Ice Cube

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

Scott Olsen

He ran, like, 12 poles and he wasn't even fazed. He might have run more than 14. I ran my 14 and got out.

John Whittier

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''

Isaac Marion

You might say that death has relaxed me.

Isaac Asimov

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Iris Apfel

You only have one trip. You might as well enjoy it.

Deion Sanders

If I don't like what I see, I may just have to go down there and play. You never know when I might put on a uniform.

John McArdle

If he doesn't run, I might just give him a trial and then go into the Caulfield Guineas.

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

John Taylor Gatto

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.

Margaret Mahy

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Jeanette Winterson

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.

Emily Perkins

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading.

John Irving

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Joan Rivers

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.

Gayle Forman

In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.

Luke Grimes

I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."