Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Mayhew

I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia.

Jackie Collins

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Sergio Garcia

I think I proved myself today, and I think the British Open is done, so I don't want to hear any more questions about it.

Jack Straw

I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations,

Albert Finney

He just lets you go, really. When we were kind of supposed to rehearse, I don't remember rehearsing at all. We just sort of gossiped and chatted.

Amir Khan

Haroon is already a Four Nation and British champion and he thinks he's going to be better than me. We spar a lot and sometimes, even though he weighs only 6½ stone, he can hurt me. I give him one back then - just to let him know who's boss.

Noam Chomsky

There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines.

Murray Rothbard

Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Michael Gurven

Kids can't meet their own needs until their teens, sometimes even late teens. And, as we know, a teenager can eat you out of house and home. The irony is it would be even more difficult if our children grew like primates.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Mary Gordon

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

Orson Swindle

Keeping your computer, personal information and your children safe should be taken seriously. Not using common-sense precautions like firewalls, virus protection and parental controls is like leaving the door of your house wide open all night.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Bible Bible

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Brad Little

He's got something he wants, if he has in mind a land trade,

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Richard Branson

We told him he had to land alive.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Tyler Farr

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Rick Riordan

No which fish are big enough to land

Rick Riordan

You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was.

Quvenzhane Wallis

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Sheila Nevins

respect mostly the people on the other side of the camera.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFORM, v. A thing that mostly satisfies reformers opposed to reformation.

Rand Paul

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

Jami Attenberg

I have watched Occupy Wall Street mostly from the sidelines.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Mia Sara

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

Dana Schutz

I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Seth Greenberg

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

Peter Ustinov

It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself

Ann Miller

He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.

Werner Heisenberg

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

Chinese Proverbs

If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain

Black Kettle

I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you.

Mark Feuerstein

In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd.

John Danby

They just wanted it more than us, plain and simple.

Ken Wilber

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Lynsey Addario

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.

Gary Shaw

Calzaghe is not our focus. We simply don't need the fight,

Hideo Kojima

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Derek Stafford

He comes out every day. He comes out just like we do. He's just trying to get better.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Keith Cooper

I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away. I had no idea what was going on.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Greg Watkins

In the hip-hop world, there's nothing worse than being called a snitch. It can be detrimental to your career, and to your health.

Ken Oplinger

In some respects, it's actually worse than a passport.

Tim Nelson

I'm thinking, do I have that or do I have something worse on my hands?

P. J. O'Rourke

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Gary Payton

He didn't like the 19 (points) and 10 (rebounds, actually 7.8) he was getting (in the playoffs). This year we'll get him back to 26 and 12 or 13, and we'll be fine.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Todd Genke

We're pretty much getting on his back. We told him going into the year that he's going to be our guy.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

William Wilberforce

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

If it takes you three years to set up a studio, and you've made one track with that setup, then the logical thing to do is not change anything and just do another one using the same set of sounds.