Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

Carl Sandburg

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

Cara Castronuova

I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.

Carey Mulligan

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

Cameron Diaz

I don't say that I won't do nudity for other people's benefit. It has nothing to do with other people's, it's just what I'm comfortable with. I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

Ron Gardenhire

We've talked about it. He says he'd like to do more. That would be nice to see.

Catherine O'Hara

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

Al Yankovic

I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

Al Yankovic

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

Alain de Botton

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

Alain de Botton

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Al Franken

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

Charles Darwin

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

Jane Austen

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

Jamie Oliver

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

Jamie Oliver

I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.

Jason Behr

Germans make nice cars.

Jason Bateman

I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.

Jason Aldean

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

Janice Dickinson

I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

Janet Frame

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

Jane Leeves

I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

There are some things a nice society doesn't want to talk about.

Sienna Miller

But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Barry Zito

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

Baltasar Gracian

Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Arundhati Roy

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

Ariana Grande

I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.

Diane Cilento

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

Diana Wynne Jones

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

Desi Arnaz

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.