Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Anderson

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Virginia Postrel

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

Colin Angle

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home.

Eve Ensler

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

Bob Verdi

When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.

Bel Powley

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

Brandi Carlile

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually.

Brad Goreski

With glitzy add-ons, the bright, girly dress you bought for daywear becomes fancy enough for evening.

David Ulevitch

With DNS, it's possible to control key components of Internet navigation. Google already controls search, they are quickly gaining market share to control the browser, and when you put in DNS, it becomes the trifecta of complete navigational control.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Cecelia Ahern

He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say!

Carrie Underwood

When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

Ashley Tisdale

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

Christi Elias

We have a motto this year that says, 'Katrina crushed our school, but not our spirit' and we've tried to live by that. The toughest part is that most of my team is living in FEMA trailers. That's been a huge transition for them. And then we've not only lost key players, but friends.

William Shakespeare

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.

Autumn Reeser

Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood.

Roland Dumas

It is easier to crush me than to investigate the role of France itself, which benefited greatly from this subtle game of shadows and light, which I inherited but did not start or gain from,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

William Shakespeare

This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

Betsey Johnson

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Seanan McGuire

'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had the words slightly modified, and you'll also get just original works that have been written about science fiction and fantasy works, or with science fiction and fantasy themes.

Pink

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

Johnny Galecki

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Matt Hasselbeck

His numbers are incredible. If I had a fantasy team, he would probably be my first pick at the quarterback position. He is a huge guy, physically intimidating.

Kelley Armstrong

Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.

Ronald Harwood

He wanted to make a picture for children. So I read a lot of stuff and he read a lot of stuff. . . . But I don't like all those fantasy books, I'm not good at 'Lord of the Rings' and the 'Harry Potters.' . . . It's not my world. I like things to do with reality and the world we live in -- or lived in.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Dave Walla

That was Roberson's fifth foul. Instead, she stays in, and they're shooting free throws.

James Mansinger

We just didn't pitch in the second game. The big inning killed us again. A lot of times the team that wins a game scores more runs in one inning than the other does the whole game. They scored six in the fifth inning, and we scored six on the day.

John Fields

We just didn't get any help. When your fifth man is shooting 241, and you've got an 84, you really have no help and the other four guys have no insurance there.

Charlie Bell

We can still get that fifth spot. This is a game that can turn around our whole season.

Mark Pickle

With the way Steven Dodson is throwing, we're just trying to get to the fifth inning with the lead. For whatever reason, he's taken to that role and run with it.

James Matthew

Most folks don't realize it, but the FFA organization represents a little over one fifth of the students at Huntsville High School and is ranked fifth in size in the state,

Stephen Lewis

We have one girl, Nadia Underwood, who just went for her fifth shoot in Japan. She's only 17 and she's already made $250,000.

Greg Cronin

You just can't give up a short-handed goal with 10 minutes to go in the game. That fifth goal just killed us.

Mike Easley

I'm in my fifth year (as governor), and I feel like I spent all five working on Dell,

Bethenny Frankel

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

David Wright

We have all the right pieces to make the puzzle. I'm not saying it's World Series or bust. The first step is for us to become a playoff-caliber team. We have to take small steps before we can make a giant leap.

Mitchell Baker

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.

Ze Frank

I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.

David Wright

I won't say it's World Series or bust. We haven't been to the playoffs since 2000. We have to take those small steps before we take that giant leap.

Karen Williams

We're not trying to make giant leaps. We're looking for incremental movement.

Richard J. Codey

Today is a great day for the state of New Jersey. We are keeping the Giants and Jets where they belong.

Marc Morial

Today is a giant step forward, ... The president heard us and responded.

Dave King

What you really need, ... is a giant Husker logo.

Eric Fellner

You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

Ryan Klesko

This was a big win for us, ... We didn't need to get swept by these guys.

Karl Marx

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.