Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Noth

New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.

Eva Green

When I'm at an event, I like to be an eccentric dresser. I will just keep wearing what I like.

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.

Adam Mansbach

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

Tony Kaye

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Jess Glynne

I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.

Brandon Sanderson

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

Crispin Glover

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Mike Marsh

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Judi Shekoni

I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Trey Anastasio

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Parker

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Sade Adu

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Milarepa

If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling.

James Cook

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Robert Henri

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Darrent Williams

I tried to give him encouragement. At times he was down because he was used to starting.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Chris Squire

The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.