Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Timothy Noah

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Gary Gaetti

That was the first World Series in an indoor stadium, so it was kind of a novelty. It was extremely loud. We've had very, very similar moments here where you can actually feel it on your body.

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

C. S. Lewis

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Carrie Vaughn

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Fisher

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Carrie Fisher

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Carl Reiner

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Bill Bryson

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Bill Bryson

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

Nancy Zimpher

We couldn't be happier to have you here.

Ken Kendrick

We couldn't be happier about it. Tony has just been phenomenal in all aspects.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

Joe Bugel

I tell you, my wife and I can't be happier (to be back). And I know we're going to stay here until we get this program resolved and back to the Super Bowl.

Paolo Bacigalupi

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

Marco Sullivan

I would have been happier to get the spot outright, but everyone is going so good, so it was the fairest way of doing it.

Tom Cruise

I find that, especially with children, they want to contribute. Even my kids, when they come in and they mess up the work and I'm busy, but they are just trying to help out, so I always say, 'Thank you.' That's how I am with them and I find that they're happier and I'm happier as a result.

M. Wolfe

There is no person who is happier for me, ... He's been nothing but supportive and we have such a mutual respect for each other.

Lee Radziwill

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

Joel Holliday

Why would I need to sue? The lawyers are saying we're in a bind. We didn't lose money.

Linus Torvalds

I was going to start with a lawyer joke, but I'm told it was already done yesterday,

Gorden Blain

I have never been once approached by a lawyer on it.

Joseph Tate

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Mark Lanier

From Merck's victories, I've leaned that you must tie their lawyers to the truth. They specialize in mudslinging.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Thought is the measure of life.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Milan Mandaric

My thoughts are now and always will be with George,

Don Cooper

My thoughts are here, and I want to be here, ... I want to win this now, here. That's my only focus.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Karen Rafalowitz

There are a lot of thoughts right now on what we can do. There's just not as much manpower.