Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Guy Pearce

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Chantal Kreviazuk

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Jason Aldean

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

Alan Bennett

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Charlize Theron

I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

Jane Kaczmarek

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

Bill Murray

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Charles Ives

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Margaret Thatcher

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

Mark Hayes

because people see the billboards at the Arco station.

Mayor Slifka

The real shock was when somebody would turn into their driveway, so to speak, and their next-door neighbor had a huge billboard on their front lawn.

Aaron Marks

We've got the most pressure. We can't go out and spend money on commercials and billboards and all that. It's all a matter of getting out to different places, seeing different people, and hoping they tell their friends.

Jerry Thompson

You are making (Alliance One) look good, ... But you might just be making a billboard for them (gang members).

Chris Ware

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Andrew Barbour

The only way that I'm comfortable with billboards in the future is with a special use with a time limit,

John Walsh

We reach a lot of people through television, but billboards are seen daily and serve as a constant reminder.

Evangeline Lilly

Walking is a very underestimated exercise in North America. It's all run hard, lift weights and push your body, but walking is wonderful for elongating the body and posture.

Jethro Tull

The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.

Rick Murphy

There are construction techniques that you can remove those walls, and lift them out, and set them in other locations.

Bob Iger

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Timothy Noah

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

Chaske Spencer

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

John Kneup

She was always there. There've been several times it's just been the two of us lifting weights.

Diane Centeno

We're getting a lift from markets where we hadn't advertised previously. It's small now, but we're starting to see it.

James Long

I am into power lifting and I play football.

Catherynne M. Valente

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Luisa Kroll

Somehow, they have been able to skirt that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Killer skirt, deadly legs.

Alveda King

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

Naomi Campbell

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

Honore de Balzac

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

Tiger Woods

I know he had the skirt on, but I don't know if he had a thong on underneath there,

Heather Mills

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

Jason London

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Laura Fraser

I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.

Candice Olson

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

David Morehouse

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

Stephen Wilson

We have very tight travel restrictions. It's not like we're going off to Hawaii.

Troy Dolan

He had a good, tight waist. He tried to tilt me. He was pretty tough on top.

Johnny Damon

I would be jacked up. But I'd be worried about that high, tight pitch.