Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

John Clarke

Until we get final approval, we don't know exactly where we can plant the rest of the trees. We also have to order the seedlings one year in advance, so we'll be ready to plant as many as 50,000 by next spring.

Amy Chua

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.

Ethan Embry

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

Lindsay Wagner

The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.

Gerard Way

We've always wanted to give something back to our fans, and to play the kind of shows we know they want to see, ... And we really think this tour is exactly that.

Jim Calhoun

When we have to play them again, we'll look at exactly what we did (Monday).

What a great run this has been for Jimmy. He is exactly the guy you see on television, totally genuine.

We're still in the middle of trying to figure out exactly what's going on.

Bill Cowher

We're running the same game plan this Sunday, ... so I figured it will still be fresh in their minds. I looked at our schedule, and I saw that we are playing the Oilers for the second week in a row, so the game plan will remain exactly the same.

Jim Messina

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

Peter Pace

We're going to do exactly what we said we're going to do, which is make the assessments of situations on the ground.

We feel that the three dissenters got it exactly right and did not rewrite the statute. The majority has come up with a new rule.

We're excited. We're pumped. This is great. This is exactly what we wanted.

We're just 24 hours from this tragic incident. We're figuring out exactly what we're going to do. And when we're ready to say exactly what that is, we'll be letting everyone know.

We're just not playing very good basketball. It's hard to put a finger on exactly what it is.

Frank Beamer

We're not always doing things exactly right, but we're doing them full speed. When you're doing them full speed, you feel like you can get the other part of it right.

Leonard Susskind

It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.

Lester Holt

You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'

Pervez Musharraf

Yes, he passed centrifuges - parts and complete. I do not exactly remember the number,

DeMeco Ryans

We knew who was going to get the ball. We knew exactly where they were going. We saw it over and over on film. Freddie stepped up and made a great hit that finished him off.

Emraan Hashmi

Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.

Erica Jong

I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

Lorrie Moore

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

Kapil Sharma

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

Kanye West

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.

We did exactly what we wanted to do on that play. But the kid made a great play.

We did exactly what we wanted in the first half, but they hit their first three shots of the second half, and that seemed to give them confidence.

Mark Turgeon

We did exactly what we had to do offensively. We executed better, which is what we had to do.

We did exactly what I said not to do in the first half: Get in foul trouble. That takes our whole game away.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

Billy Kennedy

We have a number of scholarships to give. A lot of things are still working out. We're not exactly sure how many scholarships we have to give. It's been a whirlwind. We have a lot more holes to fill than we anticipated.

Alafair Burke

There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.