Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Nancy Gibbs

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

Pierce Brosnan

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

Richard Jefferies

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

Tony Johnson

We wanted to maintain the integrity of the older home, preserving the charm and feel.

Mohamed El-Erian

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

Jason Segel

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.

Peter Capaldi

I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.

Hal Sparks

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

Mark McKinnon

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.

Jerry Yang

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Wayne Taylor

I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit,

Paul Steidler

Vermont Yankee supplies one-third of the state's electrical energy, and we want that supply to remain available,

Paul Thompson

We had a major electrical fault last night which meant we couldn't produce the paper as we usually do.

Martin Chalfie

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

Matt Bailey

While much of the work is made from the traditional media of painting, sculpture and photography, other work is very nontraditional in particular those submissions by grad students in the sciences that were done as a part of professional development, such as photographs of spinal cords, reproductions of microscopic views or sculptural models of electrical coils.

Lee Kreindler

Evidence is there that a structural, mechanical or electrical failure of some kind led to the explosion.

Ron Thomas

They won't be doing electrical and plumbing or installing air-conditioning.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Michelle Thomas

When we first got our microwave, we didn't know how to act. It had been a year since we'd had microwave food.

Erykah Badu

I'm more like an oven than a microwave,

Norman Chad

We all have televisions. They are relatively inexpensive. We all have microwave ovens. Why do we need to go out?

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Daniel Healy

It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.

Krishna Sitaula

We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.

Diablo Cody

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

Anurag Kashyap

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.

Alexander McCall Smith

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

Christopher Walken

Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

Amy Sedaris

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

Dennis Ritchie

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Stephen Jay Gould

The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.

Karen Walker

What I like about eyewear is that it can work with a lot of different looks. You can wear it with a Balenciaga dress, or something that is straight and very quirky.

Bruce Campbell

It was written by a lunatic, ... It's a quirky movie that you won't see on an airplane.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

David Sedaris

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

Baruch Spinoza

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Clare Boothe Luce

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Dennis Ritchie

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

David J. C. MacKay

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

David Bohm

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

R. D. Laing

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum...

Kay Redfield Jamison

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Ashley Walker

If we are not in each other's suites, we are always yelling out the windows into the courtyard at one another.

Tom Silva

A lot of times, those windows can be refurbished.

Damian Marley

Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world.