Famous Quotes & Sayings

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Gail Carson Levine

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Scott Harris

That was their first varsity win. They were really excited about it. It was a good match.

Josh Green

That would be great. We didn't expect our season to be over (today) but we'll be excited about it.

Duane Zauner

That was the whole goal, to get ready for Colfax and get ready for league. This was the first time we've played in two weeks, so we were real excited to get field time in today.

Pam Dean

That was the first home run we've had in our park. So, all of the girls were excited and were proud of Emily.

Mark Evans

That was a great lift from Megan. She got two big rebounds and made two big offensive plays. She got us excited again.

Craig Stansberry

We have a new big-league manager and I want as many looks as I can get. I'll have an opportunity to play in front of the major-league staff. You have to be excited about an opportunity like that. I'll just go out and play and see what happens.

Mike Babcock

We have an eight-game playoff series. We're excited about it. They have a real good team. Let's get there and get going.

Patricia McBride

I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

D.J. Strawberry

Justin Gray is just a phenomenal player. We've watched so much film on him, but it's nothing like watching him in person. He hits unbelievable shots. He wouldn't go away tonight, and kept his team in it until the end.

Gianni Versace

For me, the summer will be pure gray -- mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

Sukhjinder Singh

He (didn't) really even have one gray hair in his head. I look older than him.

Marcia Carroll

I don't know why he wanted it black. I thought the gray would not be depressing.

Andy Gray

You don't buy them; they don't come in package.

Ronald Turner

There are a lot of gray areas. It doesn't really say in the statutes just how you can do it.

Dave Grosshuesch

That is the highest number of great gray owls ever banded in a single season in the world.

Eric Davis

Talk about a Matt Gray coming-out party. A career-high and perfect from the field.

Jerry Garcia

Oh well a touch of gray kind of suits you anyway.

Ashley Jensen

When I hear the bagpipes, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. It always makes me weep.

Andrew Pyper

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Scott Coffey

Now they're saying to test these hairs even if they're not his that doesn't prove anything. But at the time the hairs were everything to the DA's case.

Elizabeth Perkins

She's probably had that same hairstyle since she was 21, and that's very important to her.

Brad Goreski

I'm obsessed with the Clarisonic brush. It actually makes you feel like you've had a facial. It helps prevent ingrown hairs after shaving, too.

Otto Rehhagel

The players are motivated to the tips of their hairs and they will come out with a lot of passion because they know this opportunity does not come round very often.

Kanye West

I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle

Zac Efron

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

Anton Corbijn

There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.

Stephanie Hill

I thought my back would be hurting forever, and I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to play at all (this year). And if I did play, I thought I would be in pain. I didn't think it would just go away, but it did.

Whitney Myers

I'm still stunned (that I won the race). I'm really proud of how I did. I was hurting in that last 100 yards but no guts, no glory. This is the first time I've ever swum the 400 (individual medley) in a major meet.

Becca Fitzpatrick

...I need a boyfriend. And to get a boyfriend, you have to look good. Doesn’t hurt to smell good too.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

Becca Fitzpatrick

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you crazy?" I said. "Crazy about you." "Patch!" "Don't worry, we've got time." "How do you know?" He staggered back a step, with his hand over his heart. "Your lack of faith hurts.

Barry McGuigan

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

B. B. King

I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.

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.