Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Schmidt

The fact that a lot of legislators live here makes it comforting to me,

P. J. Harvey

Just for six weeks, one time. A lighthouse keeps sailors from danger, to navigate from danger out there. The light is a comforting thing to see.

Helen Keller

It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Barry Hyman

Today's market is comforting in that it's back a bit, but it just doesn't have the feel of yesterday having made a bottom.

Petra Haden

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Harry Reid

The president offered comforting words tonight, but the victims of Hurricane Katrina don't need just words, they need a plan that will lead the way in recovery, rebuilding, and renewal.

Dave Eggers

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

David Levithan

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

April Bloomfield

Most of my food memories are of my Nan cooking Sunday dinners - roasts of meat with lots of vegetables. I suppose I cook what's comforting and dishes that make me feel good.

Romesh Gunesekera

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

Steve Barnes

I've never seen anything like this in my life. The smell was putrid. And when the wind blew, you couldn't escape it.

Jay Heck

It would be hard to see how the other defendants are going to escape any penalty given what's happened here.

Elaine Vogel

This is a place where I can escape to fantasyland.

Elizabeth Hand

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of my youth. I think you never escape the music you're listening to and seeing when you're seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old.

William Shakespeare

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Peggy Smith

We didn't know about her trying to escape until after court, ... Now she faces two more charges.

Dan Clark

Nobody's plotting to escape the accountability; they're just trying to help students get a fair chance. These are not malicious errors.

Alex Hernandez

But at the same time, I realize how lucky we were to escape with a tie. John made some big-time saves or else we would have been 0-1.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

E. L. James

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Steven Spielberg

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Jennifer Lopez

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

John Gibson

I think it's a great opportunity to showcase our city.

Randy Smith

I think it's a great opportunity to be able to talk to him, but more important than that, I think it tells me that he's listening and that's really important to me.

Mike Hammond

I think it's a great opportunity for people to come out and have fun. They're not running a marathon. It's great for people who want to come out and test themselves.

Steve Sanchez

I think it's a great idea for the city.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Charles Schumer

If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

Don Lindburg

I'm not hearing anything like that, and I would be very, very surprised.

Mike Tranghese

I keep hearing the question, 'Are we going to survive?'

Larry Holmes

Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis.

Kevin Hall

All we're hearing from the House leadership is 'no,' and that's not a solution. It is bewildering that there are those in the House who would remove tools as opposed to offering constructive solutions of their own.

Graham Henderson

The CRTC did not have a policy hearing where everything is on the table,

Brad Richards

It shouldn't be like this. We know what to do and what to do to make it happen. We are all sick of hearing about it and talking about it. We have to do it. We have to win the battles. We are talented enough to win the puck and hold the puck.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Chris Evans

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Angie Harmon

I had my plan. I had my family. We would travel the world and shoot movies and be fabulous.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Yoko Ono

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

Anton Corbijn

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.