Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Corcoran

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

Gary Krist

Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

Linda Sherry

Marketing gimmicks are pretty popular right now. Issuers have to try to separate themselves from the pack.

Linda Sherry

Marketing gimmicks are pretty popular right now, ... Issuers have to try to separate themselves from the pack.

Jimi Hendrix

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Russ Kinnel

Any time you have a super-narrow universe and rationalize other stuff that's out there, it's a sure sign it's a gimmick fund.

Ariel Sharon

I understand the importance of peace much better than a lot of politicians do who talk about it. With me, peace will be a peace for generations and not a gimmick of the elections.

Mindy Kaling

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

Cornel West

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Lauren Worsham

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

Natalie Massenet

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

Issac Marsh

Jonathan Elliott ran very well. To have him at tailback and to have our starting tailback, Stephen Nicholson, back next week, it ought to be interesting to see.

Dean Ryan

There were a lot of things we were unhappy about on the pitch. Jonathan Kaplan is a world-class referee but the Premiership is different. To come in on a one-off was unfair - for him and for us.

Carl Cornwell

In 18 days, Jonathan U should have walked out of that hospital.

John Murphy

I don't think there's going to be any major changes. As president, Jonathan was pretty much running all the operations of the company. Scott was working on strategy and longer-term vision.

Robert Brusca

It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' And they'll probably never be here.

Richard Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Ellis Rubin

Lionel wanted to make sure he had the right to appeal.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bill Miller

We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

John McTiernan

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Mario Vargas Llosa

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

Steven Wright

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

Adrian McKinty

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

Anthony Mackie

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

Robert Rodriguez

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

Rob Thomas

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Raymond E. Feist

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

Lawrence Block

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Francois Rabelais

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.