Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it.

Bill Self

It's a very tough place to play. If you've played well enough to win there, you've done a nice job.

Thomas Hutchinson

Waldrop, can you please go back in the office? I don't know how nice I should be to someone who's yelling at me.

Dick Armey

The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.

Diane Setterfield

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

David Schwimmer

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

David Sedaris

It is never appropriate to comment on a woman's breasts. I would never do it on the street or at a supermarket, but when I'm sitting a table signing books, sometimes I notice that a woman will have remarkable breasts. And I will maybe quietly say something about it. It's not in a sexual way, because I'm a gay man - I would never say to a man "great ass" because that would be sort of creepy.. I hope it's not creepy to quietly tell a woman she has nice breasts.

David Mitchell

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

David Ginola

To spread a nice and good message to restore confidence among the fans around the world, because the fans are the most important thing.

David Ginola

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

Dave Barry

I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

David Tennant

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

Charles Spurgeon

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Alan Alda

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Edward Gibbon

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Dean Cain

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

David Twohy

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Walliams

In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

David Hyde Pierce

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

David Brooks

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

Benazir Bhutto

Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone...feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness.....

Benedict Cumberbatch

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

Audrey Hepburn

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

Audrey Hepburn

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

Ato Essandoh

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

Arne Jacobsen

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

Arnold Palmer

When I was in college, I thought about becoming an attorney. But I wasn't smart enough; I hate being cooped up indoors; and I'm too nice a guy.

Diablo Cody

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.

Diablo Cody

I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

Denzel Washington

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.