Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Jimmy Carter

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

John C. Reilly

I don't think I could ever stop doing serious movies and just do comedies, or vice versa, but there is something cool about going to work everyday and you're just trying to make your friends laugh. That's nice work if you can get it, you know what I mean? It's different than going to work and knowing that I've gotta slap someone in the face today, and then I've gotta cry, and someone's gonna die, I've gotta get myself to that place.

John C. Reilly

I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.

James Toback

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

James Patterson

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

James Patterson

We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!). -Fang's Blog

James Patterson

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

James Moore

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

James McAvoy

I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

James McAvoy

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

James McAvoy

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

James McAvoy

That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people whether they're nice or not, because they're 3D, they're solid, you can define them, it's not wishy washy.

Emeril Lagasse

The most interesting thing I've ever heard about myrself that isn't true is that I'm not a nice guy.

Elliott Smith

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Ellen Terry

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

Ellen Page

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

Elizabeth Reaser

People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.

Edward Thomas

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

Holly Hunter

In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.

Hermann Maier

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

Heikki Kovalainen

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

Hayley Williams

Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded.

Hiroyuki Sanada

Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

Henry Selick

It's nice to be taken seriously.

Henry Rollins

In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

Helen Reddy

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Heather Graham

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

Heather Donahue

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Hayden Fry

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Hilarie Burton

My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.

Hideo Kojima

People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.

Hideo Kojima

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.