Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moby

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

Nick Frost

I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

Karen Thompson Walker

I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

Liza Minnelli

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

Delta Burke

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

Nina Bawden

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Tory Burch

I wanted to help women and their families.

Zoe Saldana

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Johnny Knoxville

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

Chanel Iman

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

Patrick Soon-Shiong

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

Emily Blunt

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Jennifer Lawrence

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

Studs Terkel

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Diane Lane

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Ursula Burns

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Princess Diana

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Philip Schultz

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.

Tina Yothers

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

Danny Glover

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Dan Castellaneta

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor

Donatella Versace

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

Olivia Wilde

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

Tina Turner

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

Paul Farmer

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

Uma Thurman

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Anita Baker

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

George Vecsey

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.

Eugene Kennedy

Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

Ibrahim Babangida

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Roy Ayers

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

August Wilson

Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

Dinaw Mengestu

Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

Mike Shinoda

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

Fred Allen

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Andrew Stanton

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

John Perry Barlow

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Lee Haney

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

Andrea Corr

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

Ethel Merman

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

Ian MacKaye

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

Philip Yancey

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

Colin Mochrie

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

Tamsin Greig

Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

James Thurber

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Joel Osteen

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!