Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

William Kirby

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Val Kilmer

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

Billy Graham

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God's definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

David Carson

I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these are names we never would have dreamed major corporations would choose.

Frederick Warren

The appropriate economic definition of a separate product is an item for which there is sufficient demand such that it is efficient to offer that item separately from other items,

Richard Land

The American people are not sending their young men and women to Afghanistan for this definition of freedom. Mr. Rahman should be released immediately.

Melanie Boeglin

That was the definition of a heartbreaker. We're using that as motivation this year and hopefully we can have a better outcome. We don't want to leave anything up to the (NCAA Tournament) selection committee.

Alan Boss

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation,

Pico Iyer

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

Laurie Colwin

One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Bible Bible

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.

Joji Kato

I'm in good shape and I've come back to form, skating-wise. I'm fully prepared to take myself to the limit and hopefully I'll win a gold medal with a race that delights the crowd.

William Cowper

But misery still delights to trace / Its semblance in another's case.

Bible Bible

A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom

Owen Felltham

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all spiritual pleasures, more in fruition than in expectation

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Walter Kirn

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.

Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Michael Foreman

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Wendy Evans

That's also fostered a willingness to wear pink.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Matthew Smith

The 30-year is the hot IPO of 2006.

Micky Arison

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.

Bill Hartley

We're really pleased to have one of the country's hottest retailers.

Phil Everly

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.

Scott Medalen

It didn't seem like much was working for a while. They got off to a hot start.

Jeff Long

I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.

John Lindsey

Just because it's the middle part of September doesn't mean we couldn't have some pretty hot weather.

Cliff Curtis

I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

M. Wolfe

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

Michelle Sheridan

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Cathy Schroeder

We have rigorous monitoring of each and every scorer.

Joe Carnahan

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

Bobby Bowden

You'll have Joslin Shaw at (split end) and if I need to I'll have Rod Owens in the slot,

Jim Smith

We're not trying to make the rodeo disappear. We're trying to give it a hiatus, so that it can survive.

James White

Rodney was smart. You want to have fun, but you can't get hurt.

Pete Johnson

rode out (hurricane) Camille (in 1969) when I was 20 years old.

Rachel Hunter

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

John Skelton

He that spareth the rod hateth his son.

Paul Konerko

Garland, we just hopped on his back tonight and just rode him.

George Bernard Shaw

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Joan Jett

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Rainbow Rowell

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

Dan Dougherty

Who do I root for? I have to keep it straight and narrow.

Shani Davis

I'm still rooting for him. He is an American.

William Shakespeare

Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.

Alan Trammel

Whether I'm there or not, I'll always be a Tiger, and I'll always root for the Tigers.

Dale Tallon

I'd like to see more of that. There's no accountability in some of these guys, but all of them are accountable. Everybody's trying to get to the root of this.

Gary Beach

If I was a shareholder I'd be rooting for a breakup.

David Graeber

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Dick Bartholdi

That was as satisfying a win as we've ever had here.

Sherry Sturner

That works fine. That would satisfy everything we want.

Fred Solomon

That will go a long way towards satisfying some of our critics.

Joe Torre

Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.

Cheryl Stewart

He wanted her to satisfy his sexual gratification.

Erno Rubik

It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.

John Winn

It will satisfy curiosity, probably, more than anything else,

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

Greg Evans

There is nothing more satisfying than being able to understand.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Willis McGahee

My body's good, I keep getting up so I can't complain, ... If that's what it takes to win, that's what we're going to do.

Andrew Coburn

You can go 20 years without a hurricane. All it takes is one.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

James Woods

Without a doubt, if I had it to do all over again, I would do whatever it takes to be a one-person studio. You need to learn how to write so you can control the material. If you own the material, you can do it all.

Paul Gray

We have to re-evaluate it. It takes time, but they need to look at it again.

Valeria Golino

What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

Stevie Wonder

is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Annie Lennox

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Asif Kapadia

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Anton Corbijn

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think a visual identification will be possible. It's not about the numbers. It's about the body.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think visual identification will be a possibility,

Claude M. Bristol

Undoubtedly we become what we envisage.

Louis Cataldie

Being in the water that long makes visual identification essentially an impossibility,