Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Osbourne

They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Jenny Agutter

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Emily Watson

I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.

Dinah Sheridan

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!

Parminder Nagra

At times, I couldn't understand what I was doing. I just knew I needed to stick with it. It was instinct, and that's what I've always relied upon.

Elizabeth Taylor

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Celia Johnson

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

Saffron Burrows

Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Harold Bloom

I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,

Robert Creeley

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Richard Dawkins

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Whately

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Richard Avedon

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Samuel Pepys

I know not how to abstain from reading.

Samuel Rogers

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Richard M. Nixon

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

Kelley Armstrong

I screwed up. Again. You're shocked, I'm sure.

Jason Mitchell

This is my only violation ever, but I screwed up.

Terry Labonte

It's embarrassing for me being from Texas. I just want everyone to know that everything in Texas isn't as screwed up as it is at this place.

George Rodriguez

They treated me as if I screwed up,

Dan Wheldon

I think Jenson somewhat screwed me up there,

Richard Davis

We were screwed up in attitude, positioning and skill level. We feel we've made additions by subtraction.

Robert Duvall

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Lee Majors

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Joyce Carol Oates

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joe Manchin

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Robert Hurt

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Stephen Ambrose

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Martha Stewart

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

Jason Mraz

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.