Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Hey

I like the beach and would also love to learn golf because I think it is rather elegant for an older lady.

Chris Hadfield

I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.

Tawnya Gurney

I don't view it as an elegant place. It's a nice building, but it's mainly a home.

Paul Wall

We take pride in the unique craftsmanship - it's elegant and it's flashy.

Edward Abbey

We are kindred all of us, ... killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, the trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails, all of them, all of us.

Christian Cota

Usually all I care about is how elegant or over-the-top the pieces are, it's nice to really get to understand what the customer wants and needs as opposed to just focusing on the aesthetic.

Richard Mille

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.

Alber Elbaz

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Janice Sutton

She had more than people who lived very well in elegant homes.

Jerry Mortimer

I thought it was a neat thing they did. We had a small remembrance here at school on Friday. In small schools, you know everyone and they're close. I thought it was a really nice gesture on their part. They did it for themselves, but they were thinking of other people.

Dave Barry

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

Bernhard Schlink

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Emile Galle

Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

Mark Gottfried

I thought that was just a great gesture on Evan Brock's part.

Paolo Canio

I am fascist, not racist. I do the Roman (fascist) salute to greet our supporters and those who share my ideas. This gesture is in no way an incitement to violence and even less about racial hatred.

Drew Carey

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Donnie Yen

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

Craig Newmark

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

H. Hart

I tell him all the time, 'Play your game, don't stay in the pocket for us,'

J. Horton

If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it.

Charles Lamb

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Jane Austen

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Andrew Jackson

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Mark Latham

Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Eddie Vedder

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Charles Spurgeon

Feel for others - in your pocket

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

John Buskirk

That was a tremendous punt return. Robert's punt return really kind of put us over the top. That put us in a real, real strong position.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Robert Anderson

My tax return is in a sense very ordinary,

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Kathie Lee Gifford

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Jody Watley

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Chuck Palahniuk

We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.

Brooke Smith

You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don't, I really don't. It's nuts, but it's true.

Bonnie Tyler

I'm always buying nice watches for my husband - Bentley Breitlings.

Bill Hader

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

Bill Burr

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Russ Diamond

We have to watch out for anointed successors. That's what got us here in the first place.

Patrick Carman

Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.

B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.