Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zadie Smith

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Chris Crutcher

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

That was the only blight on the game. It was a good, tough hit-out. We got out of it exactly what we wanted to get out of it.

That was the hit that really got us going. When Theresa hit that homer, it picked everyone up. That was exactly what we needed at that point of the game. We needed somebody to step up and Theresa did just that.

We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.

We need to know exactly how they looked at things. This isn't a routine contract.

We just didn't execute down the stretch like we needed to. Same exact thing happened twice. We didn't play as good as we can and we didn't execute at the end of the game.

Sarah Silverman

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

Rodney Brooks

Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.

Maurice Greene

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

Patricia McBride

In the beginning, he taught you how to hold your fingers, use your head, hold your shoulders, how you glissade, bourre - the exact way he wanted you to do the steps. It was relearning the whole Balanchine technique.

Pico Iyer

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

Padgett Powell

I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

Margot Robbie

I'm not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

We were having some trouble with their zone in the first half. The kids did exactly what I told them to do, and we were able to make some plays late.

We've got one formula, and it doesn't matter if it's tomato or onion - it gets fed exactly the same thing. That was our big breakthrough.

We have to have the same number for all groups. We can't have differential numbers, apparently. We're still trying to see exactly what impact that will have.

We're working to extend the network in Manatee County. We're not sure exactly when it will be ready, but it will be soon.

Drew Bledsoe

With the weapons they have, we know we're going to have to score points, ... You never know exactly how these games are going to go, but it would be a very, very strange scenario for this to be a 9-6 game.

Penelope Fitzgerald

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

I can remember exactly where I was when I saw 'The Matrix' for the first time.

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.

I would love to be able to talk to you and tell you exactly how I feel about this situation. Nothing would please me more. (Humphrey) played his heart out and played hard enough in the game like this to be rewarded at the end, but obviously, he was not.

Wildlife is exactly that -- wild and unpredictable and occasionally incidents like this do happen.

We just can't say exactly when they're going to happen. By and large, there wasn't that much ash; it wasn't a heavily ash-laden plume.

Steve Davis

You don't exactly know what she's going to say, but you know it's going to be entertaining.

Wherever I have gone in the last 18 years, people have always greeted me so warmly. They didn't always know exactly who I was, but they knew they knew me. They'd look at me and look at me and say, 'Oh, you're the sports guy.' I've always loved that.