Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Weeknd

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.

A. S. Byatt

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

Tyler Ritter

I grew up in a household that was very close, very open, and always talking about what was going on with each other.

Todrick Hall

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

Mike Gillespie

This was as hot as it's ever been. We made big shots when we had to.

Janice Dickinson

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Janet Maslin

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bruce Campbell

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Tina Brown

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Caitlin Flanagan

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

Cary Grant

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Chris Colfer

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Ashley Jensen

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

Brian Tracy

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

Jane Horrocks

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

Billy Wilder

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

Vanessa Williams

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Georges Bizet

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Honore de Balzac

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Oliver Goldsmith

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

Michelle Moran

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

George Herbert

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched