Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Sir Stringer

Apple?s market capitalization is $50 billion based on a handful (of products). We have thousands and our market cap is less than that. Is there a message in there? Can?t we just keep it simpler?

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Emery Holmik

A realistic expectation is somewhere between five and seven medals, which would exceed our best performances in Nagano (1998) and Lake Placid (1932). It's based on how our team has performed in World Cup races.

Bill Coleman

A raise should be based on performance and market data establishing the value of your job.

Shannon Flaherty

Any new decision they make is probably based more on their need for cash than upholding their credibility.

Michelle Fischer

And the misuse rate is about 90 percent in Brevard County, based upon the child passenger safety check up events that we have held locally.

Thomas Byrne

(The six-party talks) looked like a breakthrough in September 2005, but based on the subsequent interpretation of that by the Korean Foreign Ministry, there is a lot of uncertainty as to where we are.

Sharon Chang

People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.

Mark Perakh

No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.

Richard Curtis

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.

Chipper Jones

Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game.

L. Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice

Mary Randolph

Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books.

Richard Nash

These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers.

Daniel Handler

The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her,

Nigel Newton

This creates the possibility of an entirely new book-promotion event that will inject new life into the marketing of books and authors' relationship with their readers.

Miriam Toews

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.

Randeep Hooda

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

Frank Miller

I've always wanted to do crime stories. That's my favorite thing to read, ... I grew up reading Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. I always thought they would make excellent comic books.

Chris Morris

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

Maggie Peterson

Don was a comic actor. He wasn't a wisecracking, loud sort of person always telling jokes - nor is Andy.

Ben Katchor

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Kevin Kwan

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Dick Gregory

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Dave Attell

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

Jeff Neal

We are looking into whether this lawsuit may constitute a SLAPP suit.

Kim Fields

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Robin Wright

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

Antony Beevor

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.

Adam McKay

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

Alison Lewis

You can never predict ratings. It's more about the association with these marquee entertainment events.

Mike Goodman

A statute like this is much more likely to come out of Europe, where the entertainment industry is not as powerful of a force.

Rita Mae Brown

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

John Wooden

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Joe Williams

Fuel is kicking us probably worse than any other department, with the exception of the Police Department. It's simply something we've got to have to keep moving.

Tasneem Aslam

If any exception is made to India, it should also be extended to Pakistan.

Abe Simoff

I have a lot of experience, and it's true someone 55 will be working, but they will not be working as hard as someone who is 40. I am 80, and I'm working hard, but I'm the exception to the case.

Tim Heekin

I think this is a continuation of what we've been seeing for the last six or seven weeks, with the exception of last week,

John Warner

I am pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions

Andy Scott

Our goal was to stop No. 22 and we did, with the exception of that one play. And it was that one play that lost the game for us. To be honest, Mary Persons is fortunate to leave here with a win tonight.

Emraan Hashmi

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

Alfredo Alonso

Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Americans like it.

Hilary Rosen

Our list represents many different genres throughout all parts of the 20th century. And our hope is that each song will help tell a very different story,

Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

Nicholas Sparks

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Kim Cattrall

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Lee Tergesen

We have history, because he was my training officer,

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Dito Montiel

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Michael Gowell

Tell me about a movie you saw and you tell me nothing about the movie but everything about yourself.

Allison Anders

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Alexandra Cassavetes

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

John Woo

To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Cynthia Nixon

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good!

Anthony Jeselnik

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Dolly Parton

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

Crystal Gayle

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

Alice Barrett

But this is called show business, not show family.

Ricky Martin

I canceled a show once to be with someone that I loved.

T. Harv Eker

Until you show you can handle what you’ve got, you won’t get any more!

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Ann Cleeves

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Sherri Flynt

Say they're under two years old, there's a television in their room, and they never watch that television -- they still tend to be overweight.

Jane Fonda

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Diane Abbott

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Damon Lindelof

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Dennis Prager

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Clint Walker

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.

Stephen Atkinson

The worst is yet to come, ... You're going to see more shutdowns.

Augusten Burroughs

I'm always prepared for the worst.

Brian K. Vaughan

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Dean Koontz

the worst happens when you least expect it

Alec Baldwin

You've got to see someone at their worst and ask yourself if you can handle it.

David Platt

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

Usain Bolt

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.

Sophocles

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills