Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made.

Colm Meaney

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

Eva Marie Saint

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

Brooke Adams

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Bill Hader

In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

Jacki Weaver

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Maximilian Schell

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Bette Davis

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

Pierce Brosnan

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Steven Hunter

We have a group of great guys, ... We don?t have any egos on this team. We don?t have any jerks on this team. We have a group of guys that makes it fun for everybody to come to work every day.

Ramakrishna Ramakrishna

Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts the light.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Bill Cowher

We have a very healthy organization. It starts at the top. There's no ego involved. We try to get things done as a team.

Robbie Williams

I think my ego needs pampering-I need to be on stage again. So I've started writing, and I'm in the studio next week.

Heston Blumenthal

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Helen Mirren

One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego. Her ego was so huge. She was about being the queen, and everybody had better treat her as the queen. I am not like that.

David Byrne

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

David Holmes

The outlook looks very positive for gold because we keep finding ourselves testing the highs rather than testing the lows.

Bill Burr

I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.

David Wenham

There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in 'Gettin' Square' - Johnny Spitieri - that's how I found that character. I knew those people that I'd seen up at Kings Cross. I knew how they sounded.

Bill Bryson

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Aaron Zebley

We could have set about finding them, obviously. We could have shared this information with our law enforcement partners on the federal, state and local levels. We could have shared this with our intelligence partners too, and the Secret Service.

Aaron Zebley

We could have set about finding them, obviously.

Patrick Ness

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Viktor Vekselberg

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Richard G. Scott

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Edie Falco

I was here when it happened. I need more time, but that's just me. I'm personally not ready for it.

Hal Gill

I think if you don't want to wear a helmet, don't wear a helmet. If you don't feel like wearing pads, don't wear them. It solves a lot of problems but I think it's a personal decision.

Bill Ritter

Personal responsibility has to be a part of this.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Matthew Quick

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in a very well-to-do-community in Southern New Jersey.

George Dzundza

I'm here to serve. I was trained as an actor to see the writer as the ultimate creator... and that primarily what actors do is interpret.

Jared Bernstein

has primarily to do with the compensation the typical worker earns.

David Boies

From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.

Hootie Johnson

We settled on 18-10 primarily in consideration of our patrons.

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Richard Sherman

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

John Ashcroft

Thousands of persons, primarily women and children, are trafficked into the United States each year,

Lee Siegel

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.