Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

I reckon 75% at least of a book has to be omitted from the screen version, and there's no point in agonizing about this once you've taken the money.

John M. Smith

The first day I was okay, but the second day it felt like I had the worst flu of my life. My arms and my legs were in agonizing pain. I was puking and shaking and had the cold sweats.

Kenneth Turan

This film for sure will get an Oscar nomination for Paltrow. It might even win it for her again. This is a very intensely dramatic film. It's a really agonizing role.

Robert Thomson

Every journalist in Europe is agonizing over this issue. This is not about intimidation. It's a complex debate about informing readers and causing offense unnecessarily.

Viktor Korchnoi

At one point, after having already become a Grandmaster and champion of the USSR,I suddenly realized that I am heading for a dead end... I had to start everything over. But how hard and agonizing it is when you're no longer 16, but twice that age!

Dorothy Day

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

Reinaldo Rueda

If we had done better at home, we wouldn't have been in such an anxious, agonizing situation.

Larry Brumley

Without a doubt, the basketball scandal (of 2003 under then-head coach Dave Bliss) was the most trying time. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It was agonizing, and the most agonizing part was the effect it had on the families.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Sally Ride

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Walter Pater

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Cayden Boyd

I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!''

Richard Neal

The confirmation of full and final IRA weapons decommissioning will have a swift and dramatic impact on the Northern Ireland peace process.

Jose Carreras

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

Lara Rhame

The euro can go pretty far -- when currencies correct, they have a tendency to do that. But I don't see the recent move as dramatic or unexpected, and I don't think it's out of line with fundamentals.

Pete Carroll

The green jerseys and the whole thing ... it's something we'll never forget, ... It was just very dramatic ... exciting as it can be.

Marc Ganis

The key is to get on basic. We'll see a dramatic rise in the number of homes that the NFL Network reaches.

Theda Jackson

What we are talking about is really intensely elevating it with the 'My Beach' message.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.

Marc Warren

I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.

Samantha Harvey

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

Kent Beck

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

Anthony Fauci

That's why we are preparing so intensely for H5N1 as well as any other pandemic,

Kenneth Branagh

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

M. Wolfe

I would think he's worth it. They might not.

Jim Edmonds

I think it might be why I struggled in the World Series,

Ozzie Guillen

He did it all today. He might be in the lineup tomorrow.

Bryan Smolinski

(Hasek) was the reason we won. It was really tough taking those penalties in the first seven minutes, but then we got one at the end and that might have taken the wind out of their sails.

Stephanie Mills

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Alphonso Jackson

have come to realize they might not go back to New Orleans.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Henry Giroux

I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

Jim Bunning

I will not be able to support his nomination on the Senate floor.

Roger Ebert

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Will Arnett

Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

Frankie Muniz

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

Howard Dean

probably the most mismanaged nomination I've ever seen by the White House.

Charles Krauthammer

This nomination is a catastrophe, ... I don't think there is a way she can end up being confirmed.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cry when you get a Golden Globe. Then you can get an Oscar nomination.

Steve Young

Our whole strategy has been to get through the primary, get the nomination and then things will open up,

Ang Lee

In a year when the Oscars have such an independent spirit, I really treasure this encouragement.

Joe Orton

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Octavia Spencer

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Charlize Theron

This is very surreal for me because two years ago, I stood right here and won my Oscar for 'Monster.

Steve Box

We know how sacred the Oscars are. But we said, what the heck.

Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Suzanne Williamson

Just make sure you throw out the bottles,

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Johnathan Joseph

He's been there. He's making sure we don't go into this thing blind.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Ralph Richardson

I think we can use (the study) to make sure we're in balance,

Richie Sexson

I was wondering why, when he left, he kind of got the boos. I wasn't really sure of why exactly,

Gary Sanders

He was really on target. He made sure that he didn't let up even though we got the big lead.

Reuben Droughns

I don't know about that. I'm sure it'll get me some carries.

Mitch Mitchell

It is a big one. We have to win it to be in the playoffs.

Bobby Cox

I think you've got to do what you have to do to win right now.

Gerhard Schroeder

There is no alternative to this struggle, which we must win and will win,

Chad Qualls

We've got to win the first before we win the fourth.

Trent Strickland

We've got to play with a hunger. We've got to want a win and we've got to get a win.

Amani Toomer

To get a win we've got to play good. And we really didn't play that well at all.

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this again, and as long as I can keep going I have a chance.

Roman Sebrle

I did not need glucose to win the silver.

James Stewart

I'd like to just win out, and I feel that I can do that.