Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Diablo Cody

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

Denis Leary

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Diana DeGarmo

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Billy Joel

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Erik Peterson

One flush of today's Western toilet would provide enough water for washing, cooking and eating for one person in a developing country.

Sirio Maccioni

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.

Mary Green

I can't do all that cooking myself, ... At least I'm sure to get one meal a day this way.

Dom DeLuise

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel

Carol Clarke

I love cooking and I have really enjoyed my job.

Jiang Baoguo

I have always been interested in food preparation. When I was a child, I would watch my mother cooking and learned to cook myself.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

Jacqueline Obradors

I find cooking very sensual. I love getting in there with my hands instead of utensils. With all of the textures and everything, it's very erotic. Also the time it takes to prepare, and the anticipation and the buildup, you know. Then finally, you get to eat.

Curtis Stone

I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

Frank Darabont

Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Elbert Hubbard

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.