Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Gondry

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

Michael Cunningham

Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that." "Just the usual ones," she says. "How was the weekend?" "Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?

Michael Crichton

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

Method Man

In my culture, shoes are more or less the first thing women look at. Women look at the build, and then they look at the shoes. If you don't have nice shoes, you don't have money. When I meet a lawyer, the first thing I look at are his shoes. If he has good shoes, he's getting my money.

Melissa Bank

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

Melanie Laurent

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

We made a nice strong push in the second half. We really exploded.

Jerry Spinelli

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Felicity Jones

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

Gary Oldman

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Jerome Bettis

Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.

Eric Bristow

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

Eoin Colfer

I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Guy Laliberte

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

J. D. Salinger

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

B. B. King

It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.

Carrie Fisher

In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

Antonia Thomas

Its nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

That was a nice surprise. I didn't think we could score over 100.

Ray Allen

I won't wear a watch all summer. It's nice not to have to worry about time.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.

Chris Rock

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

Gerry Adams

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Hope Davis

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

Gillian Jacobs

It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.

Glenn Roeder

It is easy being a manager when you are one of 25,000 sitting in the stand or if you are an ex-player who is now working for the media who will never manage anything better than an under-10 team, thinking he knows best - and you know what I'm talking about, and I will deal with that, trust me. I'm a nice bloke, but not always.

Jess Margera

We put out a live thing, it seemed more like a bootleg though but, it would be nice to see like a concert filmed with like good cameras you know, instead of just DV cams.

Ilana Glazer

It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.

J. William Fulbright

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.

Hugh Jackman

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

Dwight Howard

I love wearing suits. I love being suited and booted. When I'm chilling, I also like to look nice.

We should practice more because it's been such nice weather recently.