Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Marks

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Piers Handling

American Beauty' really reinforced in Hollywood's eyes the idea that Toronto could actually break a film that was very important. They came here and gathered acclaim and critical support that lasted through the Oscars. Subsequent to that, virtually every year, we've had a significant number of films here that later came out with nominations and Oscars.

David Guterson

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

Ned Colletti

It would have been real easy for me to address the short-term issues and trade half the farm system. I could have. There was enough acclaim and enough interest out there that I could have filled other gaps out there by trading some of the young players. But I'm not short-sighted. I'm not impatient to the point that I'm going to do something that's going to tear apart the future, but I'm also not patient enough to sit back and get beat. This was probably as good a middle ground as I could find.

Charles M. Schwab

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

Stephen Rubin

Together, they have been responsible for a remarkable number of distinctive books that have won critical acclaim and been hugely popular, sustaining big sellers.

Oscar Peterson

very honored and proud that jazz has brought me to this acclaim by the Canadian people.

Kim Edwards

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Steve Erickson

'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.

Louis Navellier

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Leakey

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Mika

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Michael Strahan

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

Mohsin Hamid

Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Madhur Bhandarkar

After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.

Margo Rodriguez

The percentage of fat in this product here is almost 50 percent fat. But it's turkey. But because it's turkey, we think we're doing a great job.

Kris Janowski

We are pretty much approaching the line of an almost Serb-free Kosovo, which is an extremely sad phenomenon. One exodus is following another.

Chuck D.

We've already talked to people and it's completely safe, ... And with the exception of a few odds and ends, we're almost done.

Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Linda Kent

We're still faxing the forms and we're still getting information,

Lisa Stanford

It's one of the worst forms you can have. There's not always a good outlook of this.

Cyrus Broacha

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

Dave Morris

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Andrew Williamson

Banqueting forms an integral part of doing business.

Alan Greenspan

of interest-only loans and the introduction of more-exotic forms of adjustable-rate mortgages are developments of particular concern.

Ameen Rihani

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

Michael Orchin

Sometimes being a friend to wildlife means you can't always be friendly to all forms of wildlife.

Langhorne Slim

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Phil Smith

We were at the gate and refused entry.

Cheryl Crowder

Until that's done it's still kind of guessing. We had 11,000 through the gate last year, and I feel pretty comfortable saying we had at least that many.

Stacy Adams

When I was manning these gates with the military, we had between 20 to 25 officers. But the normal operation for this management is 10 to 14.

Fred Perry

With the statue and gates with my name, it's all a great thrill. People are now saying ' I'll meet you at the Perry statue'. It's a strange feeling, makes you feel a little queasy. It's a beautifully-done statue. People don't know how I used to be, they only know me as I am now.

Mike Adras

They played a good game. We did not, and they were the tougher team here tonight. We got out of the gate pretty well but hit a tough stretch. We just did not play well.

Edward Kennedy

This is a gateway drug. Smoking and nicotine is an addiction, and this is going right to the core, to the very young in our society.

Clint Wallman

For her first time out of the gate this season, I thought Shannon played a very solid round. She was steady throughout, and I think it is a great start for her.

Dave Foreman

You don't want to throw a kid into gates who's still skiing in a big, wide wedge. You want them to be able to ski well before you introduce them to gates.

David Wilson

There were a lot of people waiting in the gate area, 'See what they're doing - they're throwing me off the plane because I'm fat.

Richard Smith

We strive to provide a place of gathering and understanding where people of all socioeconomic backgrounds can come together,

Mike Mason

There is no nuclear- or radiation-monitoring program targeting mosques or other places of gathering by Muslim or any other particular group of citizens.

Michael Bryant

This particular gathering of justice ministers does provide a historic opportunity for the justice system to send a message to Parliament,

Dalai Lama

As a lay person I recognize that this doesn't happen enough, ... gathering of people to listen to some wonderful words.

Marshall Curry

I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.

D. James

There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after work. A new guy could come in and see what the latest news was and what's going on in sports. Before people had TV and telephones it was one of the only meeting places we had; one of the only places to go and get local news.

Kevin Flanagan

We understand that ASR is a gathering of the tribe, and we wanted to make sure the issue was covered.

Miguel de Cervantes

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Melissa Caldwell

We're just gathering and labeling information, ... We're not telling people what they should be offended by.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

George Voinovich

They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it.

Kara Carney

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

William McCorriston

This is a treasure and probably could never be measured in just terms of money." ()

Luke Clancy

This is the first time that we have measured the pollution and measured the effects,

Jeffrey Benjamin

You are measured by whether you take personal accountability, or not.

Ken Roberts

What is measured improves, and what isn't measured doesn't improve. It's an incentive. Providers don't want to be at 85 percent when their neighbors are higher.

Michael Hawley

Turns out that no one has measured the wind speed at the summit,

Juliana Hatfield

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?

Deepika Padukone

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

Chace Crawford

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

Demi Moore

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Antony Beevor

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Daniel Craig

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Victoria Beckham

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

Karan Johar

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Liev Schreiber

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

Linda Gray

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

Jamie Foxx

Some say that sex is overrated but they just ain't doin' it right!

Greg Egan

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

Ernest Cline

Going outside is highly overrated.

Chris Rock

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

John Abraham

He called me overrated because I didn't play in the playoffs,

Neymar

Neymar is massively overrated.

Keith Olbermann

Success is overrated.

Tunch Ilkin

Being big is one of the most overrated things in football. And it's dangerous.

Marcellus Sommerville

They can't say now, with two teams in the Sweet 16, that we're overrated with too many (four) bids. We proved by our teams that we're successful.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Tina Kuckkahn

It's the most popular place for student activities.

Andrew Cooper

They're popular but the rub is voters ultimately don't think they'll have power. They get a protest vote when all is said and done.

Louie Dobovsky

It was so popular that I think they are going to make this a regular event.

William Parsons

It was very popular in World War II.

E. P. Thompson

Anything I said would be purely speculative at this point.

Brandon Gray

This is a real snub for moviegoers. This is not necessarily about quality -- this is purely political.

Russ Rader

Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.

Travis Smith

For some people, seeing it for the first time, it still works on just a purely visual level.

Mike Scioscia

If you look at it purely from the organization's standpoint, we'd like Ervin to keep progressing with our catchers, but this is very important: We're not standing in his way.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Norma Shearer

Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

Michael Cunningham

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

Carl Gustav Jung

Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

GG Allin

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Elvis Presley

I was an overnight sensation.

Francis Spufford

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

Robert Wagner

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Van Cliburn

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Harwell

It's just been fun. We're taking our live shows a lot more serious.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Jim Tucker

There were too many malls, too many shows and not enough stuff to go around, ... We feel like this year everything is kind of stabilizing again.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

Charles Caleb Colton

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Charles Caleb Colton

To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Charles Sturt

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

Charles Spurgeon

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

China Chow

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

David Wain

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.

Diablo Cody

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

Louis C. K.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Cat Deeley

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Charlaine Harris

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.

Charles Krauthammer

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Andreas Rees

It is unlikely that reform-minded politicians will have a lot to say in the new government.

Elaine Paige

I should think it is unlikely but you never know - never say never.

Bruce Kovner

If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

David Rose

The orbs have probably sold better through catalogs because they can be categorized unlike at most stores.

Ian Stewart

For those two reasons, his candidacy is, if not doomed, unlikely too succeed.

George H. W. Bush

Unlike that other convention, what you are witnessing is real.

Homer Simpson

Unlike most of you, I am not a nut.

Tina Brown

Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia.