Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Rick Perlstein

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Richard P. Feynman

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

Robert Palmer

Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.

Robert Wilson

I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Malcolm McDowell

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

Mike Schneider

We're not diminishing his role at quarterback at all; we're just trying to enhance his role within the offense because he's one of our best athletes.

Daryl Manning

We're not best of friends. We're neighbors that talk to each other, that feel comfortable around each other. We both went away with the same thing - lets take a look at this and see how this can work out.

Rohit Shetty

There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars.

Lord Chesterfield

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing

Warren Littlefield

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Jack Rosen

Now you have an Iraq war that Americans are turning against, and you have people saying it's all a Jewish conspiracy. But look at President Clinton's team: You had many Jews who aggressively pushed for peace in the Middle East. But these same critics don't see this as part of the same conspiracy.

Twyla Tharp

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.

Barbra Streisand

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Per Petterson

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

Isabella Rossellini

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Jeff McInnis

Like everybody says, he's got to get to the playoffs -- that's the key. All this he's doing now, he's been doing that. But you've got to make the playoffs.

John Lowery

Like everybody else, this is a new season for us. Not that the other games don't mean something, because they do, but everybody wants to start off well in their league.

Uli Hoeness

Like everybody else in the whole country, I think the national team is a catastrophe.

Anna Ayala

Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this.

Tom Maurer

Luke played a great all-around game. He made everybody else on the team look better.

Ryan Tucker

Making plays I think was the difference. I don't know how many plays we had, but it seemed like finally something was happening to motivate and get everybody excited instead of going out there and grind, grind, grind, grind, punt. Grind, grind, grind, punt.

Larry Bowa

Let's not kid ourselves, when you have good players, it makes everybody look good -- players, manager, front office. The other thing is depth. That's what big payroll teams have. If they lose somebody, they've got somebody else. They don't go down to their farm system. That's a big difference.

Daniel Gibson

Let the fans and everybody else watching see for themselves. I'm gonna let everybody figure it out by the way that I play.

Diane Watson

My hopes are that the naming of this post office facility is only the first of many tributes for a man who started from nowhere to end up a national treasure and global phenomenon,

Roy Williams

When the hurricane occurred, our Mayor called the NBA and said we have a facility ready to house a professional team and he let them know that any way we can help out - we would,

Sean Callahan

I have around 160 kids I could work out, but I can't because of the facility. Our facility now can only accommodate 80. I have to take the top 80 players and turn the rest away.

Joss Whedon

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Mary Wise

Today was the first day we practiced in here, ... So I think, you know, it was more of an unfamiliar facility for us, and we'll get more reps in the O'Connell Center, and it will be good for us.

Marlo Thomas

We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.

Brian McNamara

The pauses, the silences. That demonstrates and illustrates the most important thing that makes this instrument what it is. If you're not making use of the staccato facility you're not making use of the instrument. You might as well be playing the Highland pipes, or a flute, for that matter.

Lucy Allen

We'd like to stay located in that facility until the new museum is built.

Jackie Dorwin

We were able to use the facility and had two instructors.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

Charisma Carpenter

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Tom Coughlin

Let's talk about winning. Let's talk about winning first before we talk about anything else,

Jack Ford

mediated. We still talk about her every day, but she's doing better.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Felipe Alou

No, no, no, I don't want to talk about Bonds. I'll see you later.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

Kenneth Rice

No, I didn't want to talk about that.

Eddie Perez

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.

Chris Cornell

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Janet Johnson

When I got the assessment, I went into total meltdown.

Parris Chang

We won't be totally disappointed because there will be other goodies in the package,

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

Craig Brown

I had total confidence. He's made big ones before and he does it every day in practice.

John Howard

She was very distressed. She was very angry, she was very upset, and all of that is totally understandable.

Sarah Jessica Parker

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Yanni

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

Abby Wambach

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

Aaron Eckhart

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

Johnny Depp

I wouldn't say I'm a heart-throb. I just have a weird job.

Rick DiPietro

Like slow-motion, off the shin pads, ... Another weird bounce.

Liev Schreiber

When I read Jonathan's story, I said, 'This is just too weird and too serendipitous,'

Johnny Damon

It was a weird night. We could have been written off. Now we've got to go out and win some ballgames. Preferably three.

Mike Mills

The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.

A.J. Pierzynski

It was weird for me because I don't want to show up the other team.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

Jim Butcher

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.