Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lizzy Caplan

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Burn Gorman

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

Carl Edwards

The other day I woke up and went down to my truck at my apartment and somebody had written: 'Go Tony. No. 20' on my truck,

There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.

Robert Kiyosaki

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Kazuo Ishiguro

By mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way-one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. It doesn't have to be fully realized, it can be a glancing, shadowy reference to something that you'll come back to later, and then it moves on.

Chris Klein

He's a guy who's set himself apart from the pack.

Laura Alvey

Generally, we wouldn't want to make any statements based on one round of sampling. If there's much mixing going on, it could be difficult or impossible to tease apart the different sources.

Charles Dickens

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Carlos Gracida

No one expected this, no one gave us a chance, but we got better and better the more we played.

Matt Rossi

No one expected him to win. A lot of people didn't even expect him to make it to the second period.

Michael McNamara

Online started out strong and they maintained their strength through the season, even late in the season when we expected it to trail off.

Jon Kelly

Maybe it was our turn. I never expected to get here, so it's one big thrill.

John Bracewell

Now we have to rethink that because they are a lot fresher then we expected them to be at the end of the season.

Justin McNaull

The thing we hit as we head into fall is leaf-peeping, and leaf-peeping takes a lot of gas,

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Marcus Miller

This is the first time we've played soccer in the spring; we have just played in the fall in the past, so it's kind of fun to see some different teams.

bell hooks

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Clark Blaise

India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

Elizabeth Scott

..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

Billy Connolly

Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.

Boris Pasternak

A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Antonio Villaraigosa

I had nothing in my resume to prepare me for this.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

L. Doctorow

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

Jane Martin

We have tried to prepare for every possibility.

R. Inge

We're the ones who have to perform. It's only his responsibility to prepare us, but once we take that field, it's up to us.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Charles Harris

I would not have got to make my first film and I would not have been able to set up my second film.

P. James

We really put it together in the second half.

Barry Alvarez

I think I'll take a little time and go down to our place in Naples, Fla., before going back for the second semester.

Andrew Belsky

We were able to come up on the second day, and we got 'em.

Larry Brown

When it happens, it happens. It's the second day, so I don't think it's critical.

Holly Valance

The Neighbours cast is like a second family.