Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Luke Perry

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Catherine Deneuve

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Lisa Goodman

The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.

Richard Rosen

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Mark Woodworth

We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.

Erik Kimrey

We stress not giving up big plays on defense, so that was a little disappointing. But I was glad to see the way we responded as a team after that score gave us a little reality check.

Bonnie MacPherson

When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.

Deidre Hall

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Ivan Radenovic

We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Carlos Ghosn

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Jonathan Frenkel

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

David Cameron

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Wharton

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

David Tudor

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

David Hume

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

David Hume

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Ben Wheatley

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

Denis Leary

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

David Suzuki

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

Byron Katie

Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

Bernie Mac

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

Edith Wharton

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them ...

Eamon

You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you

Chetan Bhagat

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

Bill Vaughan

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Anthony Brown

Watching upsets and being a part of an upset are two different things.

Dianna Agron

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.

Joe Riley

We're going to try it for two weeks to see if it works.

Annika Sorenstam

Three-under after two weeks of really no golf, I can't complain,

Gail Sheehy

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

Nicole Sullivan

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.

Brian Goorjian

It could be two weeks or it could be the season.

Annika Sorenstam

I have had two weeks off and I'm rested,

John Batina

We've been doing that for two weeks now.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.