Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

David Casey

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

John Galbraith

Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.

Denis Dyack

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We're doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

Jenna Jameson

My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...

Daniel Levine

My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfather was a scholar in biblical literature, and my grandmother was a poet. They planted a seed that grew when I went to college and took some classics classes.

William Lerach

Now who do you think cooked these books? Some janitor or low-level employees?

Ron Kittle

Obviously, I'm not gonna read the book. Hey, I didn't even want to read my book.

Carl Sandburg

I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhausted. I keep clipping things and Xeroxing them and planning to read them eventually, but I just end up throwing it all away and feeling guilty.

Robert Walpole

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Robert Walpole

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Kurt Student

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Jonathan Coe

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

Bernard Cornwell

Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces.

Daisy Donovan

Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, 'Oh, thank God we haven't been left on the shelf for ever,' because that is now the ultimate fear.

Jeff Greenfield

I got into television because I hated it so, ... And I thought ... there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Kimora Lee Simmons

It's not about how skinny you are or how much money or how many diamonds you have - that's the fluff that people sometimes look at as being the main thing. It's about understanding that the things that make you fabulous are all inside of you.

Denny Green

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

Bill Kelly

Wow, all I can say is it's a fabulous contribution. If I knew I wouldn't tell you, but I would go and thank her personally.

George Best

There isn't a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he's a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Brian Eno

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

Mike Modano

J.R.'s had a fabulous career. He's put up some great numbers. He had a great start to his career, but mine was slower. He's always been a great player.

Rodger Schmidt

He's a fabulous young talent, but he didn't just fall off a tree. He was built, not born.

Roger Sherman

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Stephen Gould

Man, I gave you a brain. Use it, OK?

Randy Jackson

Man, every time Kelly opened her mouth she gave me chills!

Jim Ramstad

Let us always remember that wonderful trademark George Mikan smile that lit up a room, inspired us, and gave us hope,

Martin Brodeur

Letting in that first goal gave them some wind and it set us back.

Lynn Dooley

Liam was lucky. They gave him a gift.

Ron Gardenhire

Lew gave it everything he had. It's not like he could've done anything different. We didn't get it. That's just the way it's going.

Guo Shurong

Many veteran craftsmen gave up their jobs of making New Year pictures in previous hard years.

Stan Heath

Sean (McCurdy) gave us some valuable, valuable minutes, too.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Paul Larsen

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

W. G. Sebald

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

David Souter

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

William Shakespeare

Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban

Byron Katie

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

Denzel Washington

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Charles Baudelaire

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Clive Barker

The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.

Clive Barker

Midian is where the monsters go.

Anais Nin

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

Anais Nin

Introspection is a devouring monster.

Charles Spurgeon

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Dennis Prager

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Haysbert

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted a shot to do it, and they embraced that and said, "All right, come on in. Let's see what you've got." So, I went in, and the rest is history. It felt good when I went into the office, and it just worked.

Deborah Smith

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

Elbert Hubbard

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Eleanor Roosevelt

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Elizabeth Drew

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Bibesco

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

Jevon Kearse

Obviously, they didn't like what they were seeing. We didn't like what we were seeing either, but we couldn't leave.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Isaiah Kacyvenski

On one hand, it's going to be tough seeing him over there,

Tony Soprano

I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago, ... I had some issues.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Nigel Lythgoe

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.

Matthew Warchus

This is what it's all about, Tolkien and his work.