Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Steve Scruggs

That was something we could absorb. From 2004 to 2005, we have grown exponentially. We can't keep up with that.

Sean Brady

We live in a twilight sort of world where, unfortunately, the perception of the seriousness of abortion - has grown progressively obscured in the minds of many of our contemporaries.

Bill Dudley

We've learned a lot this year and we've grown from the experience,

Hale Irwin

We've known all these kids since they were babies. It's impressive to see what they've grown up to become.

Ryan Holmes

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

Philipp Meyer

If you've grown up with guns, the thought that someone might take them away makes your stomach churn. They make you feel safe. If you didn't grow up with guns, if you don't know how to use them, then the thought that someone else has them makes your stomach churn.

Stephanie Murphy

(White) has grown into an impact player. Being the player she is has taken the pressure off of me just because it makes us tougher for us to defend.

Amy Roberts

It has since grown we have had over 10,000 people come to the event.

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Renny Harlin

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Marco Rubio

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Marilynne Robinson

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

Vesa Toskala

I thought I had him with the poke check. But he got me 5-hole.

Gavid Hood

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

Gene Upshaw

The price of poker will go up. We can not stay in the place where we are now.

Ian Hislop

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

Evan Depew

I used to play real poker at least twice a week.

Jim Griffin

It's a computer. It's not a poker machine.

John Cornyn

By the time the process is over, she will have been ... poked and prodded enough to satisfy even the most skeptical mind.

Carl Sagan

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Jackie Spinner

That was a sign of respect for her. She was able to make a connection.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

William Shakespeare

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Baz Luhrmann

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Peter Sis

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Shari Pulliam

One of the most important things we can do is trust our instincts.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.