Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cathleen Schine

Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.

Casey Affleck

The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.

Bob Newhart

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Muhammad Ali

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

James Gleick

Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that image is propagated from one place to another, from one person to another.

Look at what happened to George W. Bush. The first time he doesn't get a plurality. Then he gets 50.8 percent. He seemed to be very relieved.

Paul Richardson

I saw George Brett go out of his mind.

Leonard Nimoy

I think what really made (the film) happen was that in 1977 George Lucas released 'Star Wars,'

Kweisi Mfume

Our minds are open, ... I reached out to George Bush. I wanted him here.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

I think you have a good idea there, which is really strange. I think we should go hunting for it, but I've never been a hunter. I've got to see if George (Karl) has ever hunted before.

I was around George about a half hour once and I knew right then I could do what he did and with less expense. the only thing that is holding me back is a signing bonus.

Robert Klein

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.

Make sure you haven't told Uncle George he can invest at any given time at any given amount.

Gai Waterhouse

She won't be nominated for the George Main,

David Payne

She will run in the George Main instead,

John Hancock

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

Terry Hayes

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

Fay Vincent

I think he should hire somebody like John Dowd or set up a committee. He needs to do that, maybe headed by Mario Cuomo or George Mitchell, somebody of that ilk.

I think George is a very good player, and it would have been interesting if he had had a shot at the Tests.

Lisa Rinna

I think George Hamilton is going to be a good competitor.

Frances Farmer

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Erin O'Connor

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

Tom Izzo

The nice thing for us with George Mason is we did play them last year and it wasn't like we ran through them. We just did a good job at times and we struggled at times.

Karen Russell

I took a fiction-writing workshop my sophomore year at Northwestern, and I hadn't yet read Junot Diaz or George Saunders, Flannery O'Connor. There was something so attractive about those voices.

Fay Vincent

It's not perfect. But George Mitchell is credible. He should do a good job.

Once again, they've been talking a lot of trash in the papers. George told us we've got to go out there and do what we've got to do. We're not worried about what they say.

It's spreading nationally. That, I think, is George Ryan's legacy. This is where it started and that's his contribution.

Atul Gawande

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Elizabeth May

We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for (U.S. President) George W. Bush.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'

Barbara Lee

I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.