Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolina Herrera

You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.

Joe Sacco

The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work.

Dan Garton

We appreciate and admire the courageous efforts of U.S. military personnel around the world to keep our country safe and strong. And we recognize the great sacrifice that their family members also make. As a result, American Airlines is pleased to extend these special offers to military members and their loved ones.

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

Randy Forbes

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Harry Belafonte

We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.

Richard Davis

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Dave Leitao

What he is doing this season, I think all of us - players, coaches and media - should really savor. He's having a season for the ages. ... We all need to sit back and admire it because it won't happen for a long time after this.

Frank Robinson

We felt like every time he took the ball he was going to go nine innings, no matter what. I really admire him for that.

Lisa Cholodenko

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

M. Night Shyamalan

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

Leslie Cockburn

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.

Nicolas Roeg

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

Nicolas Roeg

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.

Tom Freston

We want to produce films here, we don't want to just distribute. We want to work with Indian producers.

Norman Jewison

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

Navi Rawat

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Kate Bush

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

Alison Goldfrapp

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

Michael Hirst

People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can't do it because I can't write it all. So I might get in the position where I have some sort of company and just write maybe the first episode, but these are love projects, in a way.

Andrae Crouch

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

Andrew Buchan

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

Gwen Stefani

I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.

Eric Jones

Right now we're running pretty rough, back and forth, we have a lot of loads here and there...I've been running in and out.

Gordon Strachan

Craig, like Adam, still has loads to work on before he can be called a real player here.

Alan Curbishley

They are exceptional. They've posed loads of questions for everyone in the Premiership, and it's up to the big teams to respond.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Bob Odenkirk

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Deb Caletti

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

Rick Vaughn

Whenever things like this pop up, we try to be there.

Buddy Rice

I've always been under the radar.

Larry Coker

When you're under the radar a bit, ... you just go about your work.

Matt Kohn

We've always been under the radar. Now we are on the radar (but) we still don't get any respect.

Warren Rudman

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Buzz Aldrin

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

Avery Johnson

We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.

Peter Tibbett

He wasn't on our anti-virus radar until Thursday. That suggests to us he probably didn't write viruses until now.

Ron Campbell

We wanted to get it on people's radar screens, and everyone we've talked to said it has merit.

Jim May

You wouldn't even see us as a blip on the radar screen.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Cathy Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.