Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Carson Levine

Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

Gene Ween

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

Will C. Barnes

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Constance Wu

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

Jennifer Jones

The pieces can be difficult, but he teaches you how to feel the music and not just play a bunch of notes.

Ben Elliot

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

David Crosby

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

Dave Grohl

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Wanda Sykes

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There are so many romantic comedies made, but very few dramas or love stories. And with a love story, you have to take time to develop three-dimensional characters.

Pearl Cleage

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

Candice Bergen

Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves.

Hal Roach

The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels; I don't care who it was.

Mike Birbiglia

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

John Thomas

We find it disturbing that the networks in question seem to have no problem exploiting gay persons through mindless comedies or titillating dramas, but when it comes to a church's loving welcome of committed gay couples, that's where they draw the line.

Tim Horan

We plan to make three feature-length movies for theatrical release this year, probably comedies because that is what works well for local production and we already have a stable of good comedy writers from our television sitcoms.

Dax Shepard

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

George Hickenlooper

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Rhonda Rompola

That was a very frustrating moment. Unfortunately, the official didn't hear me and I didn't want Cobb taking it, but she did have a decent look.

Gary Evans

We have tried to treat our people like we want to be treated. We try and pay a decent wage and have been fortunate to hire some really good people.

Rick Rudesill

We were getting decent looks, but they were going in and out. The panic set in and we stopped doing the little things to score.

Mark Riggin

With the experience that we have, we should have a decent year. A lot of these guys have three years of varsity experience. They know what I expect, and we want to win the section and win a playoff game.

Jim Whitesell

We're really thankful. It's a decent rivalry without over-the-top crazies. They saw a good game.

Henry Hewitt

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Chris Mitchell

Miami has a decent shot ... I have the opportunity to play early.

Steve Bates

You can be reasonably sure you're getting a decent investment there.

Gail Carriger

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

Gemma Arterton

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Zach Johnson

When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.

Werner Klemperer

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

Vanilla Ice

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

Brian K. Vaughan

As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.

Benmont Tench

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

Bikram Choudhury

I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.

Vladimir Potanin

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

Joshua King

You'll find us in a suit and tie if we have to go to the White House, but otherwise we wear what we want.

Sondhi Limthongkul

When he said 'No,' we can't resist, otherwise there would be clashes.

John Banville

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Ken Starr

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Beverly Johnson

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Art Spiegelman

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Rudyard Kipling

Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?

Sharon Johnson

They were already vulnerable. This is just salt to the wound.

Dante Alighieri

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

David Johnson

We shouldn't be doing that. We should be on our own system. But what can you do? The wells got salt in them.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

Kajol

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

Mark Wahlberg

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

Stan Grimes

We've got some wagons that are worth between $400,000 and $500,000.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.