Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoko Ono

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right' Sean's doing his own thing.

Georgia O'Keefe

My first memory is of the brightness of light - light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground - very large white pillows.

Gil Kane

My first job came the next year at 16.

Don Bluth

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

Greg Ginn

When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people.

Joe Murray

I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are.

Greg Ginn

We've never had any gigantic hits, or anything like that. Perhaps that has helped us because nothing has come easy. We've had to work consistently.

Faith Ringgold

I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together.

Jaime Hernandez

I guess I feel like I'm cheating my audience if I don't give them what I feel is enough since the comic doesn't come out as fast as I'd like it to.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

Italo Calvino

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

Italo Calvino

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.

Kumail Nanjiani

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Denny Leathers

Lucas did a nice job. He started out not looking so good, but got stronger and stronger. He got most of his strikeouts late in the game.

John Gordon

Make sure you smile and laugh tonight because that's what Kirby would want, and that's why we loved him.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Barbara Steele

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Brendan Behan

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Jane Russell

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Amitabh Bachchan

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!