Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Peet

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious.

Jean Reno

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Skrillex

I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired.

Nate Silver

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Charles Lamb

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Wyclef Jean

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

Robin S. Sharma

I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn't living according to my values, and I didn't have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.

Marc Maron

I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did.

David Miliband

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.

John Wayne

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

Jacques Pepin

I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

Peter Jackson

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

Sarah Shahi

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

Renee Fleming

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Donna Leon

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.

Tasha Smith

I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

Tracy McMillan

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.

Jay London

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

James Cromwell

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.

Bruce Jenner

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

Ravi Shankar

I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

Manny Pacquiao

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Carol Burnett

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

Helen McCrory

I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there's no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!

Gloria Swanson

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Clarence Thomas

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Gary Johnson

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

Todd Barry

It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Jay-Z

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Warren Christopher

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Gisele Bundchen

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

Raf Simons

I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

Jewel

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

Gene Luen Yang

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Sidney Poitier

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

Valerie June

I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.

Gerrit Smith

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Casey Wilson

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

Teddy Thompson

I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'

Zach Braff

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

Debby Ryan

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Paul Walker

I wish I could be behind the wheel for every stunt.

J. R. R. Tolkien

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

Gwen Stefani

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

Larry Flynt

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

Wale

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

Woody Harrelson

I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.