Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

Brigitte Bardot

The world today doesn't please me.

Elie Wiesel

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Ricky Gervais

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

Anthony Bourdain

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

Bjork

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

Dante Alighieri

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing

America Ferrera

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

Charlotte Bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Randy Cross

One voice is the only way to go.

Charles Spurgeon

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Charles Olson

The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

Denis Johnson

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Debra Wilson

Voice is my instrument.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

Bartlett Sher

What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.

Elizabeth Edwards

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Dirk Benedict

I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

Edna O'Brien

I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

Edna O'Brien

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time....

J Mascis

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Igor Stravinsky

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Kurt Warner

The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.