Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Black

If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

Chris Bohjalian

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

David Sedaris

I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference is so profound it's, like, already September in Tokyo, and I figured nobody would be able to work it out.

David Mitchell

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

David Crystal

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

Dave Barry

You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you?

Dave Barry

I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

David Murphy

The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now.

Byron Katie

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

Carl Sagan

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Beth Behrs

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Brene Brown

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

Katie Hardman

Since she was a college gymnast and because she's been through college gymnastics, she knows a lot about what's going on up there, what's going through your head. She knows what kind of things will better prepare us for meets.... She definitely knows what buttons to push.

Robert Gallery

So far when we've gotten down there, we haven't made the plays we needed to. I think every defense buttons up when they get down there in the red zone.

Sigourney Weaver

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

Kacey Musgraves

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

Kacey Musgraves

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

Alan Watts

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Parker

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

Alan Parker

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Al Pacino

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Chris Burke

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

David Selby

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Mitchell

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Crystal

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Sanborn

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.