Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Leon Talley

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Sophia Myles

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

Victoria Azarenka

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

Toby Keith

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Cassandra Wilson

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Chelsea Clinton

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

Brandon Sanderson

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brian Andreas

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.

Carson McCullers

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Charles Darwin

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Dirk Benedict

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Stephen Jay Gould

[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Gregory Keyes

I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Shunryu Suzuki

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Jimmy Carr

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?