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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

William Drummond

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

Bertrand Russell

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Rick Gibson

That was the game, those two (baskets) in my opinion were the game.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Vint Cerf

Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?

Barbara Thompson

We are disappointed in the result and are studying the opinion carefully.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Nick Pisca

We talk about everything. We give our opinions and theories of everything.

Anita Borg

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Clint Hurdle

My opinions, I'll keep to myself. The replay speaks for itself. We'll see how it unfolds.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

Bill Bryson

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Ashton Kutcher

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

Kati Wilhelm

That was the worst 15 km ever in my life.

Kati Wilhelm

That was the worst 15 kilometers ever in my life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

William Hazlitt

His worst is better than any other person's best.

James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Eddie Locascio

I didn't want to think the worst had happened, but ....

John Kelsch

I am devastated. This is our worst nightmare.