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?

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Dennis C. Blair

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Darrin Zeer

Travel involves a lot of waiting. I thought, 'Wow, what a perfect time to do a pose or take a breath. Yoga is so portable.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Bruce Hall

The canal's trust has been campaigning for this for over 30 years now and this is not just water in the trough, this involves the whole community.

Anthony Fauci

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

Yann Tiersen

When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

Christo

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

NeNe Leakes

I'm not a real makeup girl - you see me in lots of makeup on 'Housewives,' but I'm really all about skin. Take it from me: Wash, moisturize, and never neglect the neck.

Ivan Radenovic

We know that they play slow basketball. We have to put lots of pressure on them and keep it like that for 40 minutes.

Pat Ivey

We have an opportunity here, but there are lots of questions that still need to be answered, and that's what we're working on. If we take this to the public, we've got to be able to show them that we can deliver, because we'll have just one shot to do this right.

Tom Jankovsky

We haven't been sold. There have been lots of people looking, but that's it. There have been no offers.

Zadie Smith

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

Victor LaValle

I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.

Michael Todd

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma, ... It's actually scared me quite a bit.