Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Gyorgy Ligeti

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

Tony Revolori

If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm there in a heartbeat.

Rob Reiner

I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked 'Fed Up' - I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries.

Tony Curtis

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

Rick Astley

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Amanda Lamb

We were en route but we got horribly lost, ... We were on the outskirts of Budapest for about an hour. We just couldn't find our way into the centre. I wasn't navigating, it was a man so he was completely useless.

Gyorgy Ligeti

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

John Harsanyi

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

Rand Paul

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Carrie Fisher

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Bethenny Frankel

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Caroline Haberfeld

The airfares are less expensive, and it's very easy to get there. It's very convenient. It's English-speaking and the value is good.

Saddam Hussein

The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country,

Austin Kearns

That was the worst wind I've ever seen here. It wasn't easy out there by any means.

Steve Goff

That will be the toughest match of the day (for us). We're planning to serve them tough and keep them from getting an easy pass.

Andriy Shevchenko

The 1-1 from the first leg is a good result, but we must think we are starting from zero. We must not think that Bayern can be an easy opponent.

Gianni Agnelli

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Frank Hadden

Italy have made so much progress this year and, to be honest, I think they have played better than us in this championship.

Dan Smith

Italy has always been a big destination for us.

Jalal Talabani

Italy did not participate in a war operation,

Jerome Booth

The possibility of Mexico and maybe Russia trading through Italy is very real.

Toni Servillo

Politicians in Italy seem to spend so much time giving interviews, they don't have time to make the laws.

Eric Gordon

Periodically we'll use a different region. I've been getting a lot of requests for (wines from) Italy ? that will more than likely be the next one.

Gianfranco Fini

This is a verdict that spares Italy the shame of having been led for years by a man who ordered an assassination.

Franz Beckenbauer

After the 4-1 in Italy it was necessary for him to be here to pick up the pieces. If he sees it differently then he must live with the criticism.

Viktor Vekselberg

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

Paul Wolfowitz

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

Steve Alford

Why would I read it? I lived it.

Theo Holtwijk

We haven't really lived up to that promise.

Sophia Loren

I'm an actress. It's my passion. It's - I've always lived for acting.

Celine Buckens

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles.

Roy Brown

On Sept. 12, he lived a day longer than my daughter. And it's just not fair.

John Foster

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.

Dull Knife

I have lived my life. I am ready.

Brad Goreski

I have been so lucky to have the support of 'InStyle' magazine. My first big women's fashion story was for them.

Carrie Vaughn

You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?

Carl Safina

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

Bette Davis

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Danny Way

That was the scariest ... thing I've ever done in my life. I'm lucky I'm alive.

Michael Skibbe

That was a lucky win - you can see we still need work as a team.

Peter Jackson

I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders.

Sourav Ganguly

(Michael) Vaughan is lucky that Gilchrist has not shone with the bat. We were also similarly lucky in 2003-04 when Gilchrist couldn't get going.

Lofa Tatupu

Man! ... I'm lucky he didn't see me.

Carlos Alberto

Who is Michael Owen anyway? What has he ever won in football? He plays for Real Madrid but he is always on the bench.

David Beckham

I don't think we've done as much conditioning work at Real Madrid as we used to do at Manchester United.

Fernando Martin

Yes, it's true. But Real Madrid must sign players which the technical staff needs.

Jonathan Woodgate

If Luxemburgo and Real Madrid need me, then I am ready,

Carlos Alberto

What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget who thinks he's a king, I refuse to talk about him any more.

Giuseppe Pisanu

probably one of the main craftsmen of the Madrid massacre and was preparing other attacks.

Carlo Ancelotti

I've signed up until 2008 and I am happy. I preferred to stay here. There was a temptation from Real Madrid but I am staying here.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Debbie Ryan

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

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Beth Walters

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

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Carl Sagan

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Bill Bryson

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before.

Bill Bryson

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Bill Bryson

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

Bill Bryson

I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.

Bill Bryson

Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Bill Vaughan

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.