Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about accents and how much of an accent to make.

Tom White

They have fabulous British accents and they are really fun with their British invasion music.

Thomas Campion

Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet.

Nick Park

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

Nick DeWitz

I've never been a post-up player. I think of posting up as something that accents my game. I didn't want to be put there at first. I'm not David Lucas and I'm not Kyle Jeffers. I do a little bit of everything. Basically, it was finding my role on the team because it changed from last year. I'm just trying to adapt to it. I'm not going to play post ever again in my life.

Margot Robbie

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

Kate Winslet

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

Christiane Amanpour

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

Craig Ferguson

I know that's not the right accent, but I can't do the right accent. It's either the wrong accent or another Octomom joke.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Dan Oziminski

They have a tremendous defense. It was mostly my fault. I let it get to me. I should have slowed it down a little bit.

Chris Klein

It's not like a swap meet. It's mostly new goods.

Ellison Chu

There's a lot of selling. I think it's mostly from China.

John Cordes

South Elgin is a first-year program with mostly sophomores and they struggled. It was all right to have an off night, but I am disappointed we didn't shoot better. Everyone has to pick it up a little.

Mary Roach

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Cate Blanchett

I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.

John Carr

You mostly come to these things to support other musicians,

Ernie Els

Ernie told her there was no need to wait, as he thought she was ready to turn pro, ... He spoke mostly to Michelle, but also had a word with her dad, whom he told the same thing.

Nelson Peltz

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

Daron Malakian

They'd say, 'It kind of sounds like this,' or 'It kind of sounds like that,'

Salman Rushdie

There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same.

James Altucher

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

Mike Holmgren

Anything I say sounds like an excuse. We had our chances.

Matt Hasselbeck

Sounds simple, but it's great. It's the best.

Sheray Thomas

Sounds real strange. But that's how it'll probably be.

Richard Sherman

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Chris Faidley

I know how to say 'faster' and 'defend' in Bosnian, Spanish and Creole.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.