Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laini Taylor

Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading.

Lisa Randall

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

Lisa Kleypas

Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can’t seem to make yourself want him. But that’s not nearly as bad as when you meet the wrong guy, and you can’t make yourself not want him.

Lisa Kleypas

Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.

Johnny Cash

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Depp

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

John Turturro

It's nice to work with people who know and trust you.

John Turturro

The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

John Travolta

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

John Updike

Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

John Shelton Reed

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Sandford

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

Martin Millar

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.

Martin Mull

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

Mark Teixeira

I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.

Nick Jonas

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

Nick Kroll

One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.

Nancy Friday

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Nancy Friday

For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nanci Griffith

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Nana Mouskouri

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

Missi Pyle

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

Peyton Manning

I remember when I first got into the league, I thought how it would be nice to have a year when you were the best. That means your team is probably winning.

Penelope Spheeris

I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.

Pee Wee Reese

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

Mark Addy

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Mariska Hargitay

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

Marjane Satrapi

You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.

Marjane Satrapi

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Marjane Satrapi

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

Marjane Satrapi

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a really nice house in heaven - or what? I don't get it.

Mariah Carey

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

Mariah Carey

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.