Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Pleasence

Ultimately, Halloween II was a little too violent for my tastes. It didn't have the intelligent quality and bloodless suspense of the original.

Tristram Stuart

As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.

Stephen Young

It ended up to be thus far, and hopefully will continue to be, a bloodless transition,

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Jim Gilchrist

This is a bloodless revolution. Nobody's getting hurt, but we're changing the way our country thinks and we're changing its immigration policy.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Billy Mays

Before you throw it away, let Mighty Mendit save the day.

Robert Green Ingersoll

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

Bob McDavitt

It will be in quickly and out quickly. This system has been packing a mighty punch.

William Wordsworth

Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.

Alex Solis

If he was only 90 percent, that's mighty exciting.

Marcus Garvey

Up, up, you mighty race!/ You can accomplish/ what you will.

Travis DeWalt

If you look at his frame, he doesn't look like Mighty Mouse.

George Taylor

I just don't trust it, ... mighty preliminary.

Phil McGraw

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Bear Bryant

There is no substitute for guts.

Joan Bonvicini

We didn't have a lot of options. We tried to substitute as much as we could.

Deepak Chopra

Nutritional supplements are not a substitute for a nutritionally balanced diet.

Andre Gide

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Andrew Carnegie

Instead of the question "What must I do for my employer?" substitute "What can I do"

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

Ray Waddell

There is no substitute for the live experience,

Jim Schmitz

There is no substitute for being on our own field.