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.

Brandon Flowers

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

Wole Soyinka

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Steve Burtt

That was the driving force. That was in all of our heads and we wanted to prove a point and end that curse.

Gary Horrell

That was a great learning experience for him. It's kind of been driving him.

John Hargreaves

We can't have a police officer on every single street making sure that people are driving to conditions,

George E. Brown

You and I are paying for these thefts. If the public thinks the market is driving up home prices, they're only partially right. It's also theft from construction sites.

Kevin Osnes

We're still trying to figure out how to stop him from driving to the basket.

Megan Fox

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Brett Favre

I would love to go in. I thought about getting to Tennessee tonight and driving in with some supplies.

Stephen Covey

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

George Bernard Shaw

Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.

Elmar Basse

Sleep habits are very individual and therefore shouldn't be overestimated.

Andrew Magee

Then I remembered I was back on tour, and it was time to screw up. The old habits just don't seem to go away after the surgery. I was hoping all the old negativity might go away, but it's still there.

Tom Taulli

It'll take time for old habits to break. But the more interactions with investors, the better. It's always better to get more investors interested in your company.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.