Famous Quotes & Sayings

James E. Burke

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

James Dyson

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

James Ellroy

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

James E. Faust

Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency.

Jason Gann

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Jason Isaacs

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

Jarvis Cocker

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Jarvis Cocker

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

Jared Leto

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Janet Flanner

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.

Janet Evanovich

If anything happened to you, I'd be so destroyed they'd have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.

Janeane Garofalo

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

Janet Evanovich

Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.” “Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.” Eeek.

Janet Evanovich

When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.

Janet Evanovich

And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.

Janet Evanovich

THE NOTE said the first clue was "in the big one." I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

Janet Evanovich

The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

Jane Levy

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

Jane Lynch

Steve Carell, we’ve been nodding at each other for years now.

Jane Lynch

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

Ethel Barrymore

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

Ethan Suplee

I hope that people like us next year like they liked us last year.

Ethan Hawke

Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

Ethan Hawke

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

Ethan Hawke

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

Ethan Hawke

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

Ethan Hawke

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

Ernst Mach

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Errol Morris

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

Ernest Cline

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

Erin Morgenstern

I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says. "What did you wish for?" Bailey asks. Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.

Erin Morgenstern

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

Cassandra Clare

Wanderlust is not unheard of in our kind; it comes upon us now and then. When you can live forever, staying in one place can come to seem a dull prison after many, many years.