Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Wynn

He seems to define himself all the time by saying 'better than Steve Wynn,' or 'better than the Mirage.' We, at first, were amused by this and ignored him.

Nik Kershaw

I was amused to read that they've actually put together a marketing plan, which said I would be touring extensively in the spring. So how was I?

John Hodgman

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Kate McEnroe

I am always amused by them. They aren't wrong, but they just aren't project- specific enough.

Joseph Hoffman

In some ways, he may be looking down at all of this and be amused by it all. He was a person who liked being anonymous.

Alexander Downer

Their sort of ugly, sneering, amused attitude at the slaughter of innocent people is just horrific,

Michael Leunig

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

James Thurber

It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused

Tove Lo

It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

Kevin Barry

What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of like an apprenticeship. And in lots of ways, it's a far harder form.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Ed Oxenbould

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Julie Vallese

Retailers who are unaware that the product has been banned for sale should remove it from store shelves, and parents should take them away from children.

Gwyneth Paltrow

It's sort of banned from our home, ... But when he's not around, we play it in the car.

Mario Pescante

The use of banned substances in Italy is a crime.

James Wagoner

And as more people find out what is being taught and what is being censored in these ineffective programs, more and more of these 'stay pure or we don't care about you' programs will be banned from public schools.

Jim Shea

It's on the banned list -- no question he screwed up.

Joseph McGrath

There's certainly blasphemy in the play. Genet plays with the notion of blasphemy a lot; that's one of the reasons France banned it.

Chris King

The more deviant you can be, the better. Kids love to see you get kicked out of places. I, personally, am banned from Nassau County in New York.

Michael Jacobson

Denmark has in effect banned partially hydrogenated oil; Canada is considering it. The United States ought to do the same.

Patrick Lynn

The speech becomes ineffective if it's banned from taking place during the event. Hence, it takes away their free speech.

Gary Forrest

We've been to seven bowls in eight years, and when we missed out, we decided in January that wasn't going to happen again. We knew we had a tough schedule. We knew we had to play at Norman and had some tough games on the road in the Mountain West Conference. We just continued to improve as the season progressed.

George Bernard Shaw

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Jonas Jennings

The history and the tradition of Super Bowls outweighs the lack of success in the last two years. I know this is something we have to work at. But I look at where this team is going and not just where it is now.

Brian Kelley

You've got a guy with nine Pro Bowls not getting in, and people who don't have half the qualifications are in. I'm just thrilled for Harry.

Paul Foster

At the end of the first set they were actually knocking the bowls off to the side.

Larry Fitzgerald

The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.

John Niven

It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

Jon Gruden

It's not the greatest day of my life, winning eight games. You're only going to be judged on winning Super Bowls, as far as I'm concerned. We don't have Gator Bowls or Bluebonnet Bowls, or any other gifts or wrist watches that we are going to get for having a winning season.

DeMeco Ryans

It really doesn't matter right now, because the bowls aren't next week and they're not this week. The season isn't over yet, so being 3 or 4 isn't a big deal.

Joseph Fiennes

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

Ralph Fiennes

You want to have a critical success and you want people to go see it. It's disappointing if something's well reviewed and no one goes to see it.

David Prowse

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

Peter Davison

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Peter Davison

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

Michael York

It's not like you are a rock star and your freedom is infringed upon, but it's just nice. Especially in the movies when you are working in the dark.

Peter Mayhew

Then I put on the new suit they'd made and it felt wonderful to climb back into it and feel the character coming back out again.

Alan Bates

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

Daniel Lewis

It's a complete illusion, this notion. We create for ourselves this strange delusion that we exchange our lives for someone else's.

Kate Bosworth

The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

Marshall Cohen

Like Nike, Adidas also needed a better fashion fit and Reebok provides that.

Ryan Lochte

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Ryan Lochte

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

Rose Byrne

I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.

Tyga

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

Samuel Pepys

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

Vera Wang

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

Vera Wang

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

William Shatner

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

S. Hughes

I'm not really intrigued by what they are showing.

Leslie Mann

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

Philip Treacy

The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.

Anne Bancroft

So I called her up and said, what are you doing and would you be interested? She was very intrigued and she goes, I think we should do this project.

Joe Pasquale

I don't know how I'm going to react, which is something I'm scared of but also intrigued by.

Vince Gilligan

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

Susan Carroll

I have been intrigued by Catherine de Medici and the legends surrounding her for a long time.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Gary Peters

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Susumu Tonegawa

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Andy Roddick

Had I served the set out, who knows? ... But I let him back in and he started playing really well.

Chris Yoder

We're playing so much better now than we were just two weeks ago.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Bob Parker

He's always had illnesses. You will never get him here because somebody is always sick.

Char Quinn

I think we had somebody to walk every dog.

Gary Gilmore

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

Kelly Price

A lot of times you'll have somebody who could be the most talented person in the world, but because they are plus-sized, they're not even considered for a call back.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Jim McMahon

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

Martha Karolyi

If you don't like it, too bad. Somebody else will, and they will work it and they will be the winner.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Gil Haskell

He's a tenacious competitor. He's a fly-around, knock-you-down kind of guy. He's really a hellacious player.

Mary Roach

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

Tullian Tchividjian

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Venus Williams

I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

Venus Williams

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

Venus Williams

The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

Sarah MacLean

We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

W. P. Kinsella

I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors.