Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isobelle Carmody

Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.

Beeban Kidron

The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.

Brooke Burke

I've done little bits of Botox for a long time. If I wasn't on TV, I probably wouldn't.

Natasha Trethewey

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

Felicity Kendal

I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

Felicity Kendal

I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.

Mia Wasikowska

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Jenny Agutter

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Ben Holmes

We're really just looking at the lower end of the quality spectrum. For the most part the (deals are) like the little bits of popcorn left at the bottom of the pan - the half-kernels that didn't pop.

Imelda May

When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.

George Allen

China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

Hidenori Suezawa

The pension fund will probably invest most of its allocation in domestic debt because Japanese stocks have had a good rally over the past year and the value of bonds is low. Some money may be used to buy overseas bonds.

Gore Vidal

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Yasutoshi Nagai

The 30-year bond sales will take the pressure off 10-year notes when it comes to pension fund managers seeking longer duration holdings for their funds. We will see 10-year yields rise again.

Mike Lenhoff

That would lead to a rise in bond yields and in turn start to make equities look unattractive. If that happens on Wall Street, it's going to happen here in the UK, it's going to happen in Europe, and everywhere else.

Barry Hyman

The 10-year bond looks like it's headed higher, so I think the feeling is starting to pervade Wall Street that economy's fine and interest rates are heading higher. But the market has (also) been choppy and struggling with some key technical levels.

Rebecca Johnson

We know that walking is good for people but we don't know how to get people to continue to do it. We wanted to see whether bonding with a dog might be a motivator to continue walking,

William Sullivan

Today the collective wisdom is that the economy will improve in the not-too-distant future, and that's hostile for bonds because it suggests that the Fed is done easing monetary policy and that financial markets may confront some interest-rate pressures as the economy improves and borrowing re-accelerates.

Imani Hakim

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Zadie Smith

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

Abraham Lincoln

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

Constance Wu

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Bobby Wallace

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.

Mia Wasikowska

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

Martin Henderson

You are constantly looking for ways to do something you haven't done before, whether it's a particular role or doing theatre. As a person, I'm really open to experience.

Chuck Palahniuk

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

James Hoffa

The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for retirement security. Fifty million Americans are without health care. And real wages are falling,

Rutina Wesley

If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a chameleon. I want to be that versatile actor who can do anything - that's why you learn fifty different dialects, you do Shakespeare, you do commedia, you do it all so that if any job comes your way, you should be able to do it.

Joel Kwiatkowski

We haven't been very disciplined. We have to take our stick off guys. That's just about learning. Fifty games in, these are very important points for us.

Frank Johnson

Forty-five thousand seats is not enough. Fifty thousand to 52,000 would be enough for a New York stadium.

Eroll Skyers

He's a shadow of himself. His speech is slurred. He lost fifty pounds. He was found hanging in his cell. He was found seriously hurt and hanging.

Sharon Stone

You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

Bobby Heenan

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth.

Gregory Rogers

Actually, Jacob's father, James Fleming (1773-1857 and his wife, Jane Hulse Fleming (1774-1843), were the first to settle in Point Pleasant. They moved from Shrewsbury to Point Pleasant and opened a tavern and a maritime business. Jacob and Mary Fleming were the first Flemings to live their whole lives in Point Pleasant.

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.

Gad Elmaleh

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

Zoe Kravitz

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'

Vanessa Hudgens

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

Emma Roberts

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

Edward Norton

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

David Beckham

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

David Chase

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

Rebel Wilson

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Ezra Taft Benson

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Neel Mukherjee

I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary novel where people just sit and talk to each other about their relationships.

Natsuo Kirino

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.