Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Al Sharpton

As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

Al Jarreau

I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

Chloe Sevigny

I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

China Mieville

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

Edith Piaf

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

Ben Whishaw

I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Brett Lee

We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Charlaine Harris

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Charles M. Schulz

Charlie Brown got hit with a line-drive!" "Does anyone here know anything about first-aid?" "It's probably not serious... Second or third-aid will do.

Camilla Belle

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.

Don Wylie

We're still moving. Truck lines are getting a little long and some frustration is building, but things are moving.

Diana Nyad

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Lorraine Toussaint

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

John Milton

The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.

Joe Vinson

The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think,

Mike Stackpole

We still thought we might be able to do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Bill Nighy

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.