Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Bloom

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

Robert McChesney

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

Chuck Klosterman

I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.

Lester Bangs

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form.

Leslie Fiedler

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

Vincent Canby

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Chuck Klosterman

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

Chuck Klosterman

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

Chuck Klosterman

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Billy Childish

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

Aristotle Onassis

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

Dave Obey

I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.

Stuart Cohen

E-mail is the primary source of viruses. So cutting off e-mail before midnight seems prudent.

Alice Temperley

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

Bill Durham

We want to do it very reverently. That's why you don't see him at the opening of a business. I have lost many friends over that. I won't see him made a mockery of. You never seen him high-five people in the crowd. Never seen him cutting up. We take that role very, very seriously.

Athar Khan

There's so much market stimulation right now that we don't have to worry about cutting into each others' passengers. It's an exploding market.

Brian Rose

There's some speculation that Governor Fukui might signal that they're going to start cutting their liquidity target.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Ray Walston

I have worked with some very great directors.

Stephen Chow

I like working as a director most.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Gaspard Ulliel

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

Rick Harris

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right if you don't inhale

Spencer Roecker

Flat Rock is a good team. There's a reason why they're in the top one or two teams in the league every year.

Bobby Hauck

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

B. F. Skinner

We went flat and started coasting after the 7-1 lead after two innings. But I thought we played pretty good for the first game of the season.

Andrew Strauss

The credit's got to go to our seam bowlers, who did a great job on a flat pitch to set up the game for us.

Mason Cooley

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

Robert Walsh

On the back side today I actually turned to one of the guys and said 'I'm flat out, I can't go any quicker at this stage' and I got no response,

Ken Mayland

If anything, this is a pause. My impression is that manufacturing is doing better than the flat reading suggests.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Benjamin Franklin

A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Lone Star

The problem with all my movies, because they're complicated,

Jennifer Grey

Give yourself pleasure; see your friends; go to the movies.

Allison Anders

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Jacki Weaver

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Eric Beder

the whole urban style has been co-opted by preppies.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

Sandra Ford

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

John Adams

There's just a real style to these boats.

Hao Fang

We just wanted to keep the style of the magazine.

Douglas Adams

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

Corbin Bleu

I know my style of music is very eclectic.

E. B. White

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

E. B. White

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.