Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Lovato

As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line.

Amanda Palmer

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

Anna Quindlen

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.

Anna Quindlen

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

Angelo Dundee

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet.

Angelique Kidjo

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

Claes Oldenburg

I always knew America was all about guns. You go to the movies as a kid, everybody's got a gun.

Cindy Sheehan

I raised four kids in six years.

Chynna Phillips

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Annie Leibovitz

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Annie Leibovitz

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Annie Leibovitz

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

Annie Leibovitz

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Annie Leibovitz

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Annie Leibovitz

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

Anthony Burgess

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Thomas Huxley

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

Richard Linklater

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

T. Harv Eker

Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.

Sylvester Stallone

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

Sylvester Stallone

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Taylor Kitsch

I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

Ray Stevenson

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Ray Knight

I don't know how to play easy.