Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Greg Kinnear

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

Emmy Rossum

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Tina Fey

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Glenn Beck

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

Louis Farrakhan

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Oriana Fallaci

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Chris Van Allsburg

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

Gillian Jacobs

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

Richard Carmona

I am not a Hispanic candidate. I am an American candidate who happens to be of Hispanic heritage, who understands the culture, who has worked the border and has a unique understanding of those issues. But rest assured my job is to represent all Americans as a U.S. senator.

Willie Nelson

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

John Travolta

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

Mandy Moore

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

Anna Netrebko

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Woody Allen

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

R. Kelly

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.

Colm Toibin

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Caroline Kennedy

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

Stanley Hauerwas

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Helen Fisher

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

Milla Jovovich

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

Christopher Morley

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Scott Hamilton

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

Natasha Lyonne

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

Tom Ford

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Chad Hurley

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

Mayer Hawthorne

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

Richard Flanagan

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Cecilia Bartoli

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

Norman Granz

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

Sophia Loren

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Mallory Ortberg

Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

Conrad Black

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Taylor Caldwell

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Colin Powell

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Miguel de Cervantes

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Ray Lewis

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

Joseph Barbera

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

Megan Fox

I don't like feeling out of control. I have to feel like I'm in control of my body.

Walt Disney

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Elisha Cuthbert

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

Jodie Foster

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

David Lynch

I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.

George Benson

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

Chris Moneymaker

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

James McAvoy

I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.