Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allan Carr

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Russell Brand

It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc.... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

Willa Cather

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Vincent Van Gogh

If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.

Wayne Thiebaud

The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

Valerie Steele

The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?

Sarah Jessica Parker

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

Walter Isaacson

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters

Jim Taylor

I don't know whether it will sell; God's truth, I don't care. I want it in libraries, I want it in journalism schools. I want it out there.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

P. J. O'Rourke

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Neil Young

This is the sickest piece of journalism I have ever seen!

Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Dusty Springfield

It got very well reviewed, ... I don't think it ever sold that much, but it seems to have settled into this niche of respect, which I find very touching.

Jamie Dixon

It was a completely unique situation. We talked about that she's got to find out what your niche is and what your strengths are. You've got to sell that.

Lev Yilmaz

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

Mike May

It's one of those sports that's sort of a niche activity.

Larry Beets

They all have their little niche in it that we want them to be thinking about.

Michael Sylvester

This is really an economy-of-scale question. This is a niche market.

Peter Bart

There could be no replacement for Army, and no one will replace him, ... His niche and talents are very special.

Seth Godin

No niche is too small if it's yours.

Sandy Goldstein

We realized there was a real niche out there.