Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wyler

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Walter Hill

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

Walter Hill

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Walter Hill

I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

Walter Hill

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

Walter Hill

If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.

Walter Hill

I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

Walter Hill

I always say the next one is my favorite.

Walter Hill

Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.

Ed Perkins

The 3 percent charge has been coming into effect over the past year, but a lot of smaller banks and credit unions only charge the 1 percent, and American Express is still at 2 percent.

Tang Xu

That would increase unemployment and hurt our economy, and commercial banks could also face a difficult operating environment.

Katsuhiko Kodama

That would be happening here as high-techs and banks were sold heavily in the past few days.

Vincent Brennan

We can see what's going on in the market because we have all these other banks we're negotiating for.

Don Smith

We have thousands and thousands of banks and we have to consolidate to get more efficient.

Burton Greenwald

You are going to see a flood of deals from insurance companies and banks that started proprietary fund families and have been unable to successfully distribute them through their captive sales organizations.

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Todd Miller

Most of our crooks flee to Louisiana. But now they can't. It's nice that someone is from someplace fun like New York.

Craig Newmark

Crooks are early adopters.

Brian Schweitzer

When you fill your gas tank, a portion goes to dictators, sheiks and crooks around the world who funnel some of this money to terrorists, ... We need to stop importing oil from people who want to destroy our way of life.

Dashiell Hammett

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Jason Statham

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

Homer

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Jacob Zuma

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

Will Rogers

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Richard M. Nixon

Well, I'm not a crook.

John Boyne

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

George Washington

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Dolly Parton

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

Jonathan Byrd

For me, I play golf to glorify God. And I'll keep working hard at it as long as I can.

Albert Pujols

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

Gerry Adams

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Oswald Chambers

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

James Garner

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

Joe Riley

In this world today that is so fast, when people say they don't have time to read the Bible, they will have to slow down to read this. That's the point, to glorify the Word.

Anton LaVey

I see nothing wrong with robbing somebody on the street.

William Tecumseh Sherman

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.