Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd George

Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration.

Nobuki Goto

The expectations are prompting more expectations. The market is likely to stay solid for the time being because there are no factors to dash these hopes.

Allegra Huston

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

Steve Kaufman

Because of the inversion, the heat races will be extremely intense with the fastest drivers in time trials trying to make it to the front to qualify for the night's dash and Saturday's $50,000 to win feature. They'll be like mini feature events.

George R. R. Martin

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

Stephen Rodrick

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

Jake Plummer

We knew the whole off-season what we were working for, it wasn't just dashed in the first game.

Kara Swisher

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Al Pacino

In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

Chita Rivera

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

David Sedaris

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

David Suchet

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

David Naughton

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Brunello Cucinelli

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

Bryan Sykes

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. . . I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. . . . We're very closely related.

Michelangelo Antonioni

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

Bernardo Bertolucci

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.

Craig Heller

Sitting where we're at right now, I'm very pleased. I've been waiting for somebody to pinch me and wake me up.

Laura Osnes

I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.

Aaron Small

Please, somebody pinch me when it's all over.

Bruce Bochy

Obviously, we'd like to start getting some pinch hits.

Bob Livingston

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

Rachel Joyce

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

Jack Phelps

This may start to pinch some consumers' wallets.

Renee James

If you can make it so that I could touch somebody remotely through a wearable because it has haptic feedback - like, I could give a hug and it would touch you or pinch you - that would be killer.

Huston Street

The first time I had to pinch myself was walking into (big-league) spring training,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Kate Michelman

Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down.

Philippe Petit

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

Gwynne Shotwell

What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes.

Alan Trammel

If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.

Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Heath Lane

We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.

Mike Conroy

We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.

Rand Paul

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.