Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Mathews

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Kitty Kelley

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

Al Roker

When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.

Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Richard Pryor

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

David E. Kelley

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

Stella McCartney

When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.

David Cronenberg

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Christopher Moore

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.

William Glasser

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Raymond Chandler

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Sean Booth

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount.

Mortimer Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Jim Henson

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

Alfred Molina

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

Bono

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Steve Forbert

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Richard Russo

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Chaim Potok

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Ivan Lendl

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.

Alan Shearer

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Helen Mirren

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

Branford Marsalis

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Leonard Nimoy

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Waylon Jennings

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Carmelo Anthony

Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?

Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Alan Sugar

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

Annie Lennox

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Michael Gove

You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

Anthony Fauci

You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn't be ashamed to call that a 'universal vaccine.'

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Marc Newson

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Mark Spitz

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

Carrot Top

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

Joel Madden

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

Fay Wray

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Alain Prost

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Steven Pinker

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Wangari Maathai

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Wendell Phillips

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Mario Cuomo

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Darell Hammond

Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.