Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I am told the settlement of $5 million I am being paid is the largest amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law

Woody Allen

New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

Richard Gere

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

Robert Duvall

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Robert Rauschenberg

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

Robert Plant

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

Sasha Pieterse

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.

Sara Paxton

New York is a lot more fun than L.A.

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Russ Miller

The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.

Novak Djokovic

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Jodi Picoult

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Eva Green

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Pat Barker

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Kristin Cavallari

I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

Raymond Chandler

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Lu Xun

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Cassandra Clare

Will looking after her, sighed.not for her, he said under his breath, though there was no one to hear him, for me.... And he leaned his head against the cold iron gate.

Neal A. Maxwell

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Natan Sharansky

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Oliver Herford

My wife has a whim of iron

Margaret Thatcher

I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.