Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Raven-Symone

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

Dan Proft

We have a lot of people waiting to give Steve 'substantial' checks if Jim Edgar doesn't run, and that kind of underscores the need for Gov. Edgar to make a decision in a reasonably short period of time.

Phil Frame

We have had no checks in a long time.

Jon Johnston

W e found carbons of checks that show at least 12 times in the last week or two.

Michael Moore

Those checks will increase every year, and we're not limited to 25 years, ... Those payments will last forever, and ever, and ever.

Tom DeLay

We have to remove the red tape so they can get these checks and start to rebuild their lives,

Z. Sheppard

We're cool. We're getting back to basics, I guess. You always have reality checks after the kind of game we played last week, but that's in the past and we know what's up with it.

Jay LaBonte

Unfortunately, those safeguards can actually help crooks in manufacturing realistic-looking checks on their computers. Some of these checks look better than the real McCoy.

Nicole Gasparri

We were just about to finish getting money from last year prior to Wilma. After the storm, we still got some checks from Frances or Jeanne.

John August

We wanted to make a version that wasn't so disturbing that you couldn't put it in a family movie,

Tony Wood

I think our stupid government is shooting high-energy microwaves into the ionosphere and it's disturbing the jet stream.

Chris Burns

One thing I find disturbing is as we move further away from specific historical movements, young people get removed from the meaning. Hopefully the work will move their hearts or minds to think about it in a different way and remember it.

Isabelle Dinoire

On May 27 after a very disturbing week and lots of personal worries, I took some tablets to forget.

Colin Campbell

I find it quite disturbing and also surprising that in the legal world of all places redress is denied.

Richard Freeman

I find it disturbing to think about moving graveyards. It's not a planning issue, but it's a moral one.

Michel Gondry

I always had disturbing dreams from when I was a child. Seeing that they disturb me, I might as well make money from it.

Terry Jenkins

When we have to say we can't in a way ... they prefer, or maybe not at all, it's a very disturbing situation.

Eric Melloul

We're seeing more and more very shocking price increases, and that is somewhat of a disturbing trend. Time will tell how right analysts are.

Gary Hart

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Gallagher

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Jennifer McMahon

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

John Godfrey

I'm always for a weakened Conservative party, slightly or massively,

Rainer Guntermann

If anything it was a slightly more hawkish spin (than we were expecting).

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Jason Mraz

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

Mark Hendrickson

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.