Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Chapin

Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.

Gwendoline Christie

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

Gregg Allman

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

Grant-Lee Phillips

I played with the same band for years and years and theres a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, its nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

He's skating, and that's a step. He's still a big step away from being ready. It's nice to see him out here and I know he desperately wants to get back in.

He stands in that pocket and does a nice job. But we got after him up front.

He's really a nice kid. He's just made some stupid choices.

He's progressing nicely at this point. He sounds happy, but there is still no official timetable for when he will return.

Fred Davis

I don't know if it's being on the road so much, or what. It will be nice to be back home.

I don't know if I'd try it in a regular-season game. It's just nice it went in.

Ingmar Bergman

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.

Jack Davenport

Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

Jack Canfield

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

J. D. Salinger

We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.

J. D. Salinger

There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

J. D. Salinger

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

J. D. Salinger

What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

J. D. Salinger

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

J. J. Abrams

It's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, "Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you."

J. D. Salinger

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

J. D. Salinger

She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

J. D. Salinger

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.

Isabelle Huppert

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top

Irwin Shaw

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me

Ira Levin

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

Ira Gershwin

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

Ioan Gruffudd

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

Illeana Douglas

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

Jack Nance

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

Jack McDevitt

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

Jack London

As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback. The slaves won't stand for it. They are too many, and willy-nilly they'll drag down the would-be equestrian before he gets astride. You can't get away from them, and you'll have to swallow the whole slave-morality. It's not a nice mess, I'll allow. But it's been a-brewing and swallow it you must.