Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Galati

Murakami has said that what always fascinates him most are the things he doesn't understand. And his work is filled with people who are in that somewhat inchoate state of being on the threshold of knowing, but not quite knowing -- which can be maddening, but which can also make you giddy.

Hal Rubenstein

If the script is sharp and witty, the movie will offer an inside peek into an industry that fascinates and antagonizes most people.

Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.

Caroline Leavitt

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

Gia Coppola

My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

Hilary Mantel

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Lynn Coady

That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.

Author unknown

I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Pat Riley

We don't have time to reinvent the wheel.

John Powell

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

Tony Stewart

We're not going to reinvent the wheel this year. We're just going to keep doing what we've been doing all along.

Charles Bukowski

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

Frank Normile

I don't try to reinvent the wheel too much.

Bill Cosby

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

James Altucher

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

Hubie Brown

It reinvented me. It got me back doing what I probably was supposed to be doing.

Ken Starr

It was not our place to reinvent the investigative wheel,

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Lou Mazzucchelli

There could be all sorts of other stuff, too.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

John Hurt

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

April Pearson

I'd quite like to try all sorts of different things, whether it be theatre, TV or film.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.