Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Richardson

I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.

Dasha Zhukova

I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.

Deval Patrick

Without signing, what we get is what we have now, which is illegal and undocumented workers driving without training, without accountability. People do what they have to do to survive.

We had streaks last year where we were good at putting the goals in and streaks where we dried up.

Xavier Niel

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Elizabeth Warren

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

Hilary Mantel

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.

Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

Hugh Laurie

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

We called the play out, ... Our guys in the huddle said, 'Watch the draw,' and a draw it was. We had a guy in space looking to make the play and didn't.

Harry Shearer

When (Pryor) took the 'N' word and repeated it in so many contexts and made you laugh at it so much, by the end he had drained that word of its power to sting and hurt,

Sheldon Whitehouse

We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.

Dane Cook

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

Dave McKean

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

Dave Matthews

She runs up into the light surprised Her arms are opened Her mind's eye is Seeing things from a better side than most can dream

Dave Matthews

Nothing is here to stay Everything has to begin and end A ship in a bottle won't sail All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water A ship in a bottle set sail

David Letterman

Some Secret Service guys crashed a car into the White House. And they had been drinking when it happened. Actually, they hit a barrier trying to get to the White House. It's the same thing that is happening to Hillary.

David Eagleman

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

David Oyelowo

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

Dani Shapiro

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Daisaku Ikeda

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Conan O'Brien

It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?'

Peter Coyote

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.

We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you.

Andrew Murray

We had a drink with some Swedish fans last night and we've had a great time.

Bill Taylor

We had 300 Indians here last Sunday, and most of them drove in from out of town.

We got in the truck and drove up here and the whole world was on fire.

Isaac Newton

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Robert H. Schuller

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Baz Luhrmann

If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

Steve Alford

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.