Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Ben Brantley

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

John le Carre

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.

Richard Blumenthal

The reason I love and admire the Bridgewater Land Trust so much is that they're providing a model for the whole state.

Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Steven Bernstein

What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb. They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously.

Barry Marshall

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

Dana Quigley

You hit one shot and it might be two or three holes before you hit another one. Raymond really didn't have a putt on that back nine until he had the putt to win all the money on 17. It's a little different thing. It's a very tough format to hold your patience and the patience to keep going. And Raymond aspired to that.

Victor LaValle

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

Max Stirner

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

Alan Greenspan

One may aspire to succeed Chairman Greenspan, but it will not be possible to replace him.

L.K. Advani

Swami Vivekanand, during his last days, had expressed the need for a man-making machinery in India. The RSS formed by Dr Hegdewar in 1925, did the same work Vivekanand aspired for - making men,

Dar Williams

That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people.

Kevin Collins

John was a role model for me who led to a lot of the reasons why I continued running after high school and college. He was the guy who most of the (local) teens aspired to be like as a runner.

Matt Buchanan

He really had to think about it. He isn't an actor; he doesn't aspire for fame; he doesn't want a career in Hollywood. It was just a great opportunity, all the life experiences. All the stuff he's done in Paris, the private yachts and staying in a castle. Plus it's a good time for him to settle down.

Albert Einstein

Even if you have to go through hell - go without hesitation.

John Wayne

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

Henny Youngman

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it?

Gerard Way

I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Robert Johnson

Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

Rob Longo

I hope people come to watch, but I'd be racing if there were nobody here. I just get out there and run the hell out of it.

Sam Fields

These people have no idea what to do without lawyers telling them what to do. They don't know what the hell they're doing. They're not lawyers.

Pete Townshend

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

Robert Brusca

It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' And they'll probably never be here.

Sheila E.

Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.

Paul Boyce

We could've met a nobody next but that would've been no use to anyone.

Barney Oliver

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Seth Lloyd

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Scott Snyder

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Mike Tyson

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

Theodore Roosevelt

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Deborah Kerr

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Maureen Phillips

He was a very gentle, wonderful, kind soul. In 22 years ... I never met a person who didn't like him.

Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.

Jonathan Simon

It would be nice if I could come back to Auburn. It would be nice to give back.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Glenys Bakker

We're gunning for that. It would be nice to end the season with another win.

Carey Mulligan

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Sienna Miller

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Arundhati Roy

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'