Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constance Marie

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Chet Faker

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

Travis Strack

The American Red Cross is a nonprofit organization, and we greatly appreciate all of the financial assistance we can get from the community. But it must continue so that we can maintain the level of assistance that we are able to provide.

Carlos Slim

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Conrad Brooks

That was too goddamn long. They just gabbed and gabbed. There are so many bad movies out there. They're trash. They're garbage. When you see a good B movie, you appreciate it!

Marcellus Sommerville

That was the coaches' idea for us to go up and thank them. It was a great feeling to let them know we appreciate their coming all this way, staying with us during the season.

Norm Stamper

That won a standing ovation from the police. It made me appreciate that I'm going into a number of venues where I'll be talking to police officers.

Dexter Scott King

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened.

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Wynton Marsalis

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Ravi Zacharias

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

Michael Powell

validate the purpose of a rule in the modern context or eliminate it. It's as simple as that.

Peter T. King

I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.

Bill Callahan

I thought it was an opportunity to go for it all. I never thought in any vein or any context that it was too big. I never felt that. Never sensed that. But I did know that I had nothing to lose.

Peter Wilson

Malloway's statements were made in the context of formal police interviews. She understood she had an obligation to be truthful. The fact she was willing to take a polygraph test supports her reliability.

Tustin Amole

We do want teachers to express their opinions, but to put that in context and to provide opposing points of view. All discussion must be fair and balanced.

Hubert Burda

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

Samantha Power

On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Idina Menzel

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

Ian Mckellen

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

Zubin Mehta

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

Bee Wilson

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

Idina Menzel

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

Zubin Mehta

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

Bee Wilson

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

Cilla Black

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

Christopher Hampton

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Gore Vidal

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism. We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Otto Rehhagel

Today there will only be joy, no criticism, ... We have already won everything. Now for us every opponent is a good opponent. We have nothing more to lose. There is no pressure. We will enjoy the success and look forward to the quarterfinals.

Stephen Hadley

We've listened to our critics and are already pursuing many of their proposals.

Liam Hemsworth

Mel's Diner in L.A. - they are my favorite hamburgers. I could eat there every day. They are ridiculous.

Caitlin Rose

'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.

Josh Schwartz

Finally, in the episode with the Tijuana road trip, we watched a scene between her and Seth in the diner and knew: This girl is amazing. Let's make her a series regular.

Flavor Flav

Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

Ellen Barkin

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

Stanislas Wawrinka

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Gillian Armstrong

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Ellen Key

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

Edward Norton

If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.

Elaine Stritch

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

David Byrne

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Bret Bielema

He informed me he might be interested in pursuing another option with LSU. I said that's all I needed to know because I want people that need to be here.

Aaron Sorkin

The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

Pamela Moore

We feel that we need to listen to our constituents and make an informed decision.

Marty Hurney

We don't know anything about it because we really have not been informed throughout the legal process.

James Perry

James would have needed about two months to prepare. It is a specialist item. He was informed too late.

William Ryan

I represent the legislature. When I go to the vote, I try to represent the majority view, but I can't make an informed vote until the issue is discussed.

Michael Ching

I wasn't even informed that it was up today.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

No president is informed if some plane lands,

Benon Sevan

Similarly, I informed the U.S. government, effectively the policeman for sanctions violations in the Gulf, of maritime smuggling on a massive scale that was occurring, to no avail.

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Mark Brown

We have been working for 10 years to get new tools for infrastructure development.

Steve Sobolewski

We have all the right tools on this team. No one can touch us.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Dominique Wilkins

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Carlos Slim

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

David Ricardo

Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.

David Brenner

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

Madeleine Albright

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

David Blunkett

My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.

Gene Orza

My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful.

Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

Ray Nelson

My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested,

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.