Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Larry Rothschild

That will be determined as we go. We'll see. He's where he should be in rehab. There have been no setbacks. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we're after.

Rob Stillwell

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Steve Ivcic

We just couldn't put anything past Perry. He's been like that all year. ... It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

Marc Andreessen

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Yann Martel

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Thomas a Kempis

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Idina Menzel

'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.

Isobelle Carmody

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

Ismail Kadare

I thought for a long time about leaving Albania, but at the same time to play a role in its life.

Gin Wigmore

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

Jane Seymour

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

Mark Shand

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

Olly Murs

To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

Carl Duke

We aren't sure whether it is an older male or not. He could be student there.

Meg Tilly

I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.

Bryan White

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Catherine Hardwicke

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Camille Claudel

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Nick Flynn

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Nick Harkaway

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

Lleyton Hewitt

I won't be watching the women's final, that's for sure. I'm not into women's tennis any more.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Kim Clijsters

For me, tennis is important but it's not the most important thing in my life.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Bjorn Borg

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Chelsea Handler

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

James Frey

I think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate, absolutely.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,