Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the imprint of whoever last sat on it.

Vikram Seth

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

Ben Edlund

The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Carrie Underwood

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Bill Bryson

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Paul Horn

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

Courtney Smith

Mostly they keep them put away, but if they get bored they might play a game or take a picture.

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Carrie Snodgress

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

Bernard Arnault

A good product can last forever.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Bill Vaughan

There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.

James Jones

Theaters like (the Landmark), I hope they will forever be salvaged. Long live this theater!

Jussie Smollett

I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She's the ultimate dream girl for every guy - and for every girl.

Mario Lemieux

I'm still optimistic this team will be here forever but, again, we need a new facility, ... I don't know how many times I need to say it, but this is the last time I'm going to.

Becca Fitzpatrick

This was it. Together. Forever. As we left it all behind, the sun warmed my back, lighting the way before us. I knew of no better omen.

B. B. King

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

John Bloom

I don't think it's transformed animation. The Oscar is the tail and the work is the body.

Greg Vanney

If we can win something at the end of the year that is something Oscar can take with him forever. That is ultimately the most important thing.

Jessica Simpson

... I can't say I won't ever want an Oscar role, but I don't really take myself serious right now.

Dianne Wiest

Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.

Brett Ratner

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

Brett Ratner

I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.

Brenda Blethyn

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

Elizabeth Banks

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

Gin Wigmore

It's easy listening to a record, but a live performance is so personal and real.

Kenny Jackett

That was as well as we've played this year - particularly the first 45 minutes. The performance was excellent.

Fabio Capello

We could have used a performance like that on our side.

Mark Morris

A recording of a performance is a recording of a performance. It's not the performance.

Richard Lewis

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Theresa Gattung

We're very pleased with the performance in the New Zealand business.

Lee McConnell

We're very pleased with our performance, but the Poles have protested,

Helen McCrory

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn't notice on set that on screen: bam!

Philippe Petit

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

Cecelia Ahern

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

Art Alexakis

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

David Seabury

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

David Mitchell

I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.

Cesar Romero

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Antoine Rivarol

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

William Shakespeare

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Jean Fontaine

Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.

Charles Spurgeon

Remember that thought is speech before God.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Camille Paglia

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

Bennett Cerf

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Berkeley Breathed

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Petrarch

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

William Shakespeare

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

Chris Botti

There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

Bill Johnson

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

Edith Wharton

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Arthur Rimbaud

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

William Shakespeare

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

William Shakespeare

Nature's tears are reason's merriment.