Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emraan Hashmi

I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.

Alain de Botton

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Roberto Cavalli

I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

Yogi Berra

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Antony Gormley

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Benjamin Franklin

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Karen Gillan

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

Aaron Schock

I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.

Bonnie Raitt

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Rory Bremner

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Elle King

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

Graham Nash

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

Ben Harper

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Kylie Jenner

I'm obsessed with Lady Gaga. I saw her at the Alexander Wang fashion show after-party, and I think she's the nicest person ever.

William Ames

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

Gavin Newsom

San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans

Alexei Sayle

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Norman Lear

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Bode Miller

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

Robert Orben

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Brendan I. Koerner

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

Bill Rancic

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

Shawn Ashmore

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

Alanis Morissette

I get angry at myself for staying in relationships way too long.

Bill Nye

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Muhammad Yunus

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

Brandy Norwood

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Helen Garner

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Scott Weiss

Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

Lesley Gore

I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!

Arthur Erickson

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Mark Cuban

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

Natan Sharansky

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

Nikki Reed

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

Benjamin Disraeli

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Michael Franti

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Bobby Scott

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

JR

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

David Harsanyi

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

Chick Corea

I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.

Amos Lee

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Meg Rosoff

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Carnie Wilson

It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.

Marcy Kaptur

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.

Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Lester Holt

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.

Nicholas Negroponte

One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.

Virginia Postrel

'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.