Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Elton

Most of my work isn't directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I've seen and heard and thought and conversations I've had.

Jennifer Saunders

Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

Rory Bremner

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

Rory Bremner

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

Simon Pegg

Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.

Simon Pegg

I always loved horror and that's sort of the reason we decided to make the film. We were nourished on those sorts of films, so it was a labor of love.

Tracey Ullman

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

Eric Morecambe

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Dawn French

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

William Shatner

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

Noam Chomsky

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Brian De Palma

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

John C. Calhoun

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

Pete Domenici

that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.

Patrick O'Brian

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Mary Ellen Mark

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

Carolyn Porco

We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water.

Sydney Smith

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

Nina Easton

Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Gregory Jordan

We're still trying to figure that out. We've hired experts to help us.

Amani Toomer

It feels real good. We accomplished a lot. The so-called experts had us finishing last in the division. That goes to show how much they know.

Steve Hutchinson

Going into the playoffs, the so-called experts said that there were 12 teams in the playoffs and out of everyone, we had the worst defense. Well, you can't play any better than that, can you?

Keith Ellison

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

Tony Russa

He was underrated by the so-called experts. When we got him, people in the American League called me telling what an impact player we had. He isn't underrated by people wearing a uniform.

Lance Armstrong

four or five anti-doping experts around the world that have gone on the record and said this is crazy.

Wen Jiabao

We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions,

Bill Brandt

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

Vince Young

That would be special, knowing how long we've been together, how many different things he has taught me to become the man that I am, and how to better myself on the football field and understanding the leadership of a quarterback, and different roles you have to do as a quarterback.

Buddy Bell

That was very instinctive. I don't know if there are many guys on the field who could have done that.

Andy Taylor

That way we'll be on a level playing field and remedy the harm to the party has put on us so far.

Mack Brown

We could not stop them. We couldn't get them off the field.

Tommy Aldridge

We had opportunities, but we were 2-for-10 from the field in the first quarter and we missed our first 12 three-point attempts. We shot 45 percent in the second and third, but that's when we had 15 of our 22 turnovers.

Gary Smith

We were specializing in track and field alone.

Hines Ward

We have a guy that when it's time to play around, he's joking with the players. But when it's time for business, to get on that field and get better, he's all about business. We respect that. It makes you want to go out and fight even harder for the guy.

Bob Kitchens

We have a full field in every race, and a quality field, too.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Sean Taylor

Why was I not here? It was offseason, ... I could have returned his phone calls, but it was offseason.

Beck

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

Jodi Dias

On the phone we clicked. But when I saw him, I was like, 'Wow.' I got more interested.

Kevin Garnett

Good; I can talk some (trash) to him. That's probably the reason he's not returning my phone calls. It makes a lot of sense.

Charlayne Woodard

I talk to my girlfriends. And I have three sisters. I talk to them on the phone every day.

Bill Robertson

He was waiting. He was actually talking on the phone with the ex-girlfriend when the victim pulled up.

Chuck D.

He had businesses, he had locations, he had phone numbers.

John Madden

I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.

John Ball

For sure, he would have wanted me to play. At least I got to talk to him on the phone (Saturday) morning.

Ben Barnes

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

B. F. Skinner

We'll pick those off as we are able,

Bruno Cullen

We've got probably 11 forwards who can play NRL, and we're only going to pick eight.

Riley Wallace

We have to play our game. We'll pick our spots to run, but we can't run-and-gun. That's their style.

Paul Horn

Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

Sarah Price

(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.

DeShaun Foster

You just pick one, ... and go at him.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Tubby Goodwin

The ANC is in the weakest position it's been in a while. So there's a little uncertainty and a little profit taking.

Mark Foulkes

We've got some positions that still are up for grabs.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Tom Brandt

I think Jens is sitting in position where he should ski in the top 30 in the state.

Wayne Oakes

We aren't in a position to be able to comment,

Tyrone Willingham

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

Eric Schmidt

We are in the strongest position that we have ever been.

Linda Hargrove

I think she could have an MVP season. She is in a position where all she has to do is go out and play. She doesn't have to be the leader.

Rod Graves

It does not preclude us from taking a look at the quarterback position in the draft.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Frank Robinson

If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't feel I have to share everything.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Kristi Boese

We did it on our own. We didn't want to share anything.

Jane Austen

I must have my share in the conversation…