Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jhumpa Lahiri

The narrator is not anybody in particular. It's a group of women, so there's no particular identity to the narrative voice. A Faulkner story, 'A Rose For Emily.' I admired used that voice and I wanted to try it out.. It was an experiment for myself.

Johann Koss

I've always admired Joey as a skater. But I admire him even more as a person.

Gary Phillips

Ben was such a special guy. He had the utmost respect for people. That was one of the things we thought and admired about him and the love the kids had for him. The kids wanted to it because of the respect for the person. Watching him teach kids was a privilege. He was always energetic, always intense and an unbelievable teacher.

Ben Brantley

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

John le Carre

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

Faye Dunaway

Warren Beatty's been helpful. He's been a friend for a long time, and I always admired what he did with Bonnie and with many other films after that.

Richard Blumenthal

The reason I love and admire the Bridgewater Land Trust so much is that they're providing a model for the whole state.

Paul Theroux

The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month

Steven Bernstein

What they did, in terms of offering emotional support, was superb. They were sensitive and supportive, and their lawyering was thoroughly professional. I admire them enormously.

Ayrton Senna

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Jamie Bell

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

Denise Garcia

There are some risks and challenges. As they expand internationally, their costs are going to go up. So we'll still see that top-line growth, but we'll see some pinch there on the costs and the operating margins.

Bela Lugosi

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

Barry Sanders

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

Boman Irani

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Mark Tushnet

When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.

Antonio Gramsci

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Jason Witten

Seeing some of these guys is pretty special. They've done a lot for us, the young players.

Gilles Muller

I see these guys in a different way,

Albert Pujols

This is something I can do for my country. Definitely, I want to participate in this. It's big for me and I'm pretty sure that's the same way a lot of guys look at it.

Chris Ault

That Virden keeps showing up. He has done a very nice job. He might be the most improved secondary guy we have got.

Brandon Sanderson

What wasdat, sir? What wazzat sir? What wassat, sir?” “Wayne, what are you babbling about?” Waxillium asked. “Practicing my pretzel guy,” Wayne said. “He had a great accent...” Waxillium glanced at him. "That hat looks ridiculous.” “Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said in the pretzel-guy accent, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Brad Ausmus

Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.

Kenyon Martin

I don't back down. Like, I don't know how to flop. That's never been a part of my game. For me to know if a guy likes to turn left shoulder or right shoulder in the post, I have an advantage. Or if he likes to go left all the time, I have an advantage. Or if he can't make open jump shots, I have an advantage.

Junior Seau

I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

Cameron Diaz

I was like, "Excuse me, guys. My ass is going to be facing this way. Do you mind maybe just standing over there during this take because something is going to happen."

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Lea Stokes

The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Sylvia Rhue

I sent out an olive branch. I didn't hear from them.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Steve McClain

Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.

Diane Keaton

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

Anton Yelchin

I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.

Alexander Fleming

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Alice Walker

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

Alice Munro

Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

Anthea Turner

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

Susan Polis Schutz

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Steve Jobs

I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life,

Kathie Lee Gifford

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Ron Hill

See? We've watched; we took that little insurance. You didn't like it, but we took it back away.

David Pyper

It was a little disappointing that it took that long.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Julie Taylor

We got shots, but we took them too quick. We didn't take our time.

Romain Massaro

Everything was very different then. But when Owen took over the team, I really had a much better year.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Bob Kendrick

He took it a whole lot better than I did; I'm still mad.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Candice Olson

I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.

Riley Wallace

The worst part about it is that payback game. And when you don't get a TV game, it doesn't feel worth it.

Todd Marks

The (Web sites) you see on TV could end up costing you something.

Dennis Farina

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Debra Messing

I would absolutely be a litigator. I watch Court TV every day.

Richard LaGravenese

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

Alia Shawkat

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

Anderson Cooper

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.

Christopher Parker

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.