Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Foley

There aren't many opportunities for celebs to do promotion that doesn't involve anecdotes about a crazy vacation.

Dave Foley

There aren't many opportunities for celebrities to do promotion that doesn't involve five-minute anecdotes about a crazy vacation. You really see them being themselves.

John Audubon

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.

Mark Olson

Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them.

William Mosher

Instead of just anecdotes and stories that raise people's anxieties, I think it's best to have real numbers. And now we have those.

Graciela Daniele

The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like this woman is sitting on a chair, telling you these fascinating anecdotes in such a natural way that it's as if you were sitting in the living room with her.

T. J. Miller

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

Lauren Weisberger

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

Kelly Macdonald

I'm no good at anecdotes.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Ken Hill

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Tim Reitz

I was always a theater buff. One of the best things is to have your own character to craft and design.

Bob Stoops

Kirk and Dan are great friends of mine. I do my best to watch the game and not root for either one.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Archibald Hill

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Ken Hill

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Nick Greenwell

Kids are naturally going to react to that when it happens. You tend to want to pull up short and shoot 10-footers instead of 2-footers.

Samir Haj

Karen has been our go-to person on the junior varsity team. We're going to incorporate more people into the scheme. We're going to start playing 18 people instead of just 13 or 14.

Klaus Allofs

He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.

Frances McDormand

Here was a way to actually do it with other people, instead all by yourself with a book, ... Here you can get together, read a play, memorize it and put it on stage.

Scott Aukerman

I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.

Paul Hewitt

I thought we got into trouble when they started pressuring us and the five-count was on. Instead of taking them off the dribble, we got tentative. I just think we stopped attacking.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Gary Barnett

I think we wish we played at the end of the year. Look at every other rivalry, and tell me why they play at the end of the year instead of the beginning. By the end of the year, everything's evened out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

Grace Gealey

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

James Gimpel

He hasn't spent that much because he hasn't raised that much.

Trace Adkins

You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...

William Mapother

I'm ready for conventions. You know what's interesting, the sort of questions that Lost raises are of a different sort from this movie. In other words, Lost is about figuring out the world of the show, whereas this one seems to raise questions about the world that we know. But I'm happy to entertain both.

Robert De Niro

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

Roger Ebert

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Mike Bianco

Right now, sugar is not so sweet. Everybody's raised their prices.

Ernie Fletcher

I had a very successful fundraiser here in Louisville. We raised about $150,000,

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

Joe Meno

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richard Wright

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Richard Bausch

A good story needs only a good storyteller.