Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Chuck Palahniuk

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

Abraham Lincoln

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Colin Angle

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.

David Byrne

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Marina Ottaway

The policy of the Bush administration concerning democracy-building always proceeded along two tracks, with rhetoric that was somewhat far-reaching accompanied by the second level of actual diplomatic contacts with Arab countries, which have been very cautious.

Bee Wilson

In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

David R. Ellis

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

Tyra Banks

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

Yann Tiersen

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

Imelda May

I'm not saying that women shouldn't pursue careers, but if it is going to be equal in the workplace, it should certainly pan out to be a little bit more equal in the home, too.

Imelda May

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Iggy Azalea

I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

Ice T

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

Ian Mckellen

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Alex Pareene

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Nina Garcia

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

C. S. Lewis

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Cecil Beaton

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Cecelia Ahern

She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

Carrie Fisher

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

Bill Bryson

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Brandt

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

Ian Mckellen

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.

Gloria Gaither

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

Clive Thompson

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

Cecelia Ahern

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Carrie Vaughn

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Carrie Fisher

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Sidney Crosby

That would be unbelievable, but I'm not going to have any expectations going in. I'm not sure how the lines are going to shape up but, if I had the opportunity, it would be a dream.

Bryant McKinnie

That will make our line a lot better, especially having Birk back. Having (Hutchinson) next to me is going to make me a lot better.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Thierry Henry

I am always honest, and I am not the sort of player to say, 'Oh, I love Arsenal' and then sign for someone else. I think if I was unhappy, I would say that, but I'm not. I do love Arsenal.

Imelda May

I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

Idina Menzel

I would love to work with Matt Damon.

Ian Mckellen

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

Irwin Thomas

People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

Indiana Evans

When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.

Gale Gordon

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gaines Adams

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Rachel Platten

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Marie Osmond

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

Maria Cheng

It could be Asia. It could be somewhere else.

Charlotte Bronte

I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

David Duchovny

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Charles M. Schwab

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Blaise Pascal

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Brian Jacques

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Lucinda Williams

Where they're just speaking in tongues, like they're on a drug or something... Would I really do that if that's what it would take?

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Kathy Deepe

There is a part for everyone. And if they don't want a speaking part, they can be on the set crew.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Itula Mili

Sometimes, when we're together, we start just speaking pidgin and stuff like that and that's good, too.

Jim Hightower

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.