Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth McGovern

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Charlie Hunnam

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

David Nicholls

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mary Quant

I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

Arjun Rampal

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Brian O'Driscoll

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Molly Ringwald

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

Ben Mendelsohn

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

William Gibson

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

Carolyn Murphy

You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jose Carreras

I've always said that music is like literature.

Kimberley Nixon

I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

Patty Duke

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

Kurt Loder

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Henry A. Kissinger

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Tullian Tchividjian

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Keeley Hawes

Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it.

Ronda Rousey

I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Tracey Ullman

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Shilpa Shetty

I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim.

Liberty Ross

I'm terrible at sticking to any sort of diet. The more I think I can't eat something, the more I want to eat it. And I know this is the most annoying thing for a girl to say, but I'm just really lucky; I can eat pretty much what I want.

Howie Mandel

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Dick Wolf

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

Shane Filan

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.

Chevy Chase

I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

Lao Tzu

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Reza Aslan

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

David Morrissey

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

Tom Hardy

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Robert Morgan

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Bill Hicks

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Reggie Watts

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

Kurt Braunohler

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

Deb Caletti

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Vince Gill

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

Ashwin Sanghi

Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.

Bruce Springsteen

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

Kerry King

I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.

Billy Joel

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Eddie Trunk

I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.