Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Bouquet

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

Carol Shields

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol White

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Carlos Fuentes

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

Carlos Fuentes

For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.

Carlos Fuentes

Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.

Carlos Fuentes

Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.

Jessica Abel

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

Terry Zwigoff

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

Stephan Pastis

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

Stephan Pastis

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

John Hitchcock

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere. I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

John Hitchcock

When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere, ... I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.

Tracy Hickman

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Dane Cook

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Charlotte Simonsen

We have never marketed ourselves as a Danish product, we see ourselves as an international brand.

Agnes de Mille

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Agnes de Mille

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Agnes de Mille

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Agnes de Mille

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes de Mille

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Agnes de Mille

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes de Mille

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Marcus Giles

We want to prove that we're going to be someone to deal with in this division.

Richard Costigan

We have no idea until the federal regulations are promulgated how, in fact, they will deal with California.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

John Howard

What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.

Art Hogan

When you see a deal of this size, obviously (Washington Mutual) is still acquirable,

Rich Cleveland

When you score five points in a quarter, even when they score only 10, it's hard to deal with. The guys lost some confidence.

Billy Duffy

When you're trying to sell something -- and we took a fairly big record deal when they were still going around -- we felt a lot of pressure to live up to that and perform. I think that at this point, we're a lot happier just playing live music. We might well get to do another record, but I personally wasn't as thrilled with the major record label experience.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Eddie Jordan

We wanted to win this game in the worst way. Its a tough, tough loss, but we have to deal with it and get ready for Miami tomorrow night.

Peter Hill

We have no hesitation at all in writing about those things. The readers are massively concerned. We get so many letters. We get massive, massive response to these issues, an enormous response.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post has enormous respect for the Asian-American community.

Liza Minnelli

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Gary Strickler

We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have his equivalent in junior high or in the freshman or sophomore classes.

Nick Harkaway

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Larry Birns

Rice has an enormous task to repair the present disarray in which we find U.S.-Latin American relations.

John Banville

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

Les Kynett

We want racers, former racers, officials, former officials, crews, press, and especially fans to come out for the farewell party.

Aasif Mandvi

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Greg Lowell

We've started well this year in big games. It got our fans into it and got our kids going early.

Jonathan Cain

We've seen a Renaissance in the fans ... a lot of younger 18-to-25 demographics.

Eileen collins

We have had a fantastic mission. We are so glad to come back and be able to say it's a success.

Josh Turner

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

David Mackay

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Terri Sewell

I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Emun Elliott

It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

John Entwistle

Wow, I sure do miss John hey, groupies!

Jai Courtney

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Erwin Chemerinsky

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

Erika Eleniak

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

Dita Von Teese

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

Liam Payne

I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Johnny Kidd

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.

Nicolas Roeg

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

Kiersey Clemons

When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.

Bill Cowher

Would I have liked to see us be more in sync in the passing game? Yes. And that's the one thing I come out of the preseason saying I wish we would have done better,

Jacqueline Bisset

What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.

Lisa Randall

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Raymond Domenech

We have reviewed the tape of the match and there were many situations in which we looked anything but comfortable. They put us under a lot of pressure and we were lucky to win.

Gail Simmons

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

Eric Rignot

We did not look at one or two glaciers. We looked at all of them.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Danielle Panabaker

I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

Annette Bening

When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

Richard Anderson

We think the takeout is the right price for a well-located, yet older vintage multifamily portfolio. Shareholders should be pleased.

Carol Shields

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ...

Carlos Castaneda

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

Alan Kulwicki

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Charles de Lint

Well, you know this world isn't perfect.' 'No, you're wrong. This world IS perfect, people just come along and mess it up sometimes.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

Charles Dickens

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Carol Kane

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Carol Vorderman

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

Carol Vorderman

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op.

Carlos Queiroz

Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

Carlos Mesa

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Carlos Delgado

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

Carlos Beltran

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Carl Crawford

Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Theo Rossi

I'm so crazy now about 'organic' and 'fresh' and stuff that's 'free range.'

Brian Eno

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Brian Eno

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

David Mitchell

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

David Giuntoli

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Catherine Hardwicke

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Carole King

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Theresa Klein

But there is only one version of the truth, right?

Neil MacGregor

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre.

Rene Russo

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

Paul Rudd

We're now the (junior varsity) version of that,

Nancy Wilson

We've done so many versions of this song.

Daniel Tosh

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.

Patrick Marber

Everything is a version of something else.

Jon Corzine

If you want a long version of the inaugural address, come on Tuesday.