Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean McGowan

World events may help the success of new patriotic products like Rescue Heroes from Fisher-Price. Yet retailers still see evergreen brands such as Mattel's Barbie and traditional LEGO leading the way off store shelves in the next few months.

Henry Selick

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories.

Yaya Han

I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

Jessica Biel

My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

Mark Vortice

Girls don't want Barbie dolls - they want Ken.

Lisa Engwell

For years, Katie has had a fascination with Beetles, especially the newer versions that came out several years ago. She has a Barbie Volkswagen Bug and even one for her dollhouse collection. She can spot the car wherever we go.

Source Unknown

If Barbie is so popular, then why do we buy all her freinds?

Annie Lennox

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

Ron DeHaven

The potential for this virus to have an impact on commercial poultry production is significant. Having said that, we have been dealing with (milder) avian influenza viruses for decades ... finding it, containing it, and eradicating it.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that nonresidential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Erwin Rode

We're in a happy situation in this country in that non-residential property or commercial construction is set to take over from residential property construction as the main driver of fixed investment in buildings.

Li Bingbing

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.

Laura Benanti

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Noel Wells

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Dave Morrison

When you're watching a high-def broadcast, and you see a (standard) commercial come on, it looks like someone put a sheet over your television.

Gurinder Chadha

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'

Gregg Thompson

We're mainly a commercial and industrial contractor, but every year we do two or three high-end homes or home additions,

Alan Hansen

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Bryan Ferry

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

C. Northcote Parkinson

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Manu Ginobili

We are a team of (13 players) and we lost eight back-to-backs? It can't be that hard. The legs help, but it's in the head, too.

Bill Masse

We stole one in the eighth and then we stole one in the ninth with the squeeze. It was kind of nice.

Charles Dickens

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Dickens

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

Charles Stanley

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

Charles Stanley

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Alan Watts

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

Alan Parker

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Alan Patricof

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Alan Rickman

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Alan Rickman

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.