Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

Ian Watson

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

Gillian Armstrong

I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Zubin Mehta

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Colin Morgan

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had a magic kit, but it's not something I ever pursued. I've never watched a magic show like David Copperfield or used him to base my character on, but I really like David Blaine and Darren Brown. They are doing wonders.

C. S. Lewis

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Carlos Samano

Today there was a lot more diversity in the buying.

Ryan Hall

We have more diversity. You can't expect (English-learners) to do as well as others. Like if I went to Mexico, I would fail all their tests.

Rose Thomas

Most Americans don't understand the diversity of people in West Africa.

Kevin Bloom

I think it would be impossible to overstate the importance of fuel diversity in today's economy.

Sathya Baba

Mankind can find happiness only in unity, not in diversity.

Greg Aiello

We don't spend any time looking at their figures. We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority.

Greg Aiello

We don't spend any time looking at their figures, ... We think it's irrelevant and it's purely a publicity gimmick. There are more women and minorities working in the NFL than ever, and diversity in our workplace is an important league priority.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

John Meehan

I think it would water down the commissioners role and take away some of their authority.

Bill Belichick

He's a role player. His role's to play every snap. He does so many things well in so many situations. He's so dependable. You want him in there for everything.

Rodrigo Santoro

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

Tommy Gibbons

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

O. Singh

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Jim Crosbie

They just kind of went for the jugular right off the bat. ... They're going to come out and try to set the tone early.

Steve Cook

That really set the tone for our offense. It's been that way for us all year.

Aaron Boone

They completely set the tone for us tonight.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Joe Nappi

Wherever there was an event, we tried to be there with buckets.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Phil Flynn

Yesterday we had the big sell-off and we tried to come back a little bit.

Shannon Miller

We really tried to find where we had some duplication of services. It was one of our lesser-used facilities.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Oriana Fallaci

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

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.