Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Yoshinori Ono

Our refueling efforts have been highly evaluated by the foreign countries, but there has also been criticism that we're running a 'free gasoline station,'

Bob Golic

Other than that, I've taken grief my whole life over the way I played and this and that. I let the criticism roll of my back and use it to get better.

Howard Jacobs

We've talked to a lot more experts, people who are well-respected, top of the industry, on all facets, anything that could possibly be related to this test, and they all have serious criticisms of the test.

Billy Corgan

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Carl Sagan

Valid criticism does you a favor.

Michael Ballack

The 2-0 defeat by Slovakia saw the players come in for criticism and the young players need to learn how to handle it,

Phil Savage

I think that's part of the criticism the previous group had taken. They didn't acknowledge that Ohio football's pretty good.

Bob Clarke

I don't have a problem with it at all. There was no criticism of the coaches, no criticism of the team. It's his assessment, and we don't even know if he's right.

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Charles Caleb Colton

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Alexander Pope

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Dale Carnegie

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Christopher Paolini

Of course you like him; everyone enjoys flattery.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

Benjamin Franklin

Approve not of him who commends all you say.