Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Mason

When you watch them on tape, ... they look like cutout paper dolls as they're backpedaling. They all look the same, and that's the way they're being coached. I'm very impressed with the things that they do, and we'll get a good indication of where we are after this weekend.

Todd Rundgren

The New York Dolls did not think of themselves as punk rock. There was no such term at the time. They were just another band in what was called the New York scene.

David Byrne

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Angela Carter

He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.

Kim Fields

I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.

Gretchen Wilson

Some have a note in their bag. Some put spoons in their hair and money in their underwear, ... Oh yes, our dolls can be very silly.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

John Galliano

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies

Amanda Palmer

All of The Dresden Dolls upcoming scheduled appearances at European Festivals have been cancelled.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Mike Holmgren

Where I am impressed even more with him this year is his pass protection,

Diane Keaton

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.

Peter Gould

Sgt. Palmer was very impressed with Genghis. Once his papers were in order and he passed his physical, we went off to patrol school,

Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney did more than fine. Everyone is impressed at how Sidney stayed low key.

Sue Peet

She really impressed me as our captain. She really stepped up and made everyone feel okay. She didn't show disappointment (after losing in the finals) and she let her teammates know how proud she was of them.

Fernando Meirelles

She impressed me because she knew even more than me about the character.

Jim Magagna

We've been just impressed with the way he has reached out to us as an organization. I think he very seriously sought our input as to what the university could do to better serve the needs of agriculture.

Nat Harrington

We've been impressed and proud of the schools and students who have responded graciously and generously. Many students have spent their own lunch money and hard-earned savings to give to the victims of the storm.

Jim Oberdorf

She should be very good. She impressed me last year.

Vickie Warehime

We have no indication that anybody's been harmed.

Bob Burke

What they're saying is there's no indication at all of mechanical failure.

Eugene Fama

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Guardia had an invitation to the White House. He went to the (presidential) inauguration. Every indication was that he was a reputable, upstanding person.

Bill Bixby

So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth.

Oliver Purnell

We still have every indication that James Mays will be returning this summer.

Ellen Johnson

We are looking at a second round. Every indication is that it is inevitable,

Mark Carmon

We don't have any indication that this has spread offsite.

Nat Harrington

We don't have any indication that the person is an employee.

Byron Katie

Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

Bertrand Russell

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Agnes Smedley

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Charlie Munger

If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.

Bill Watterson

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Demetri Martin

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

Alan Rickman

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Alan Ball

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

David Tennant

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

Carolina Kostner

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours...

Charles Lindbergh

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

David Brin

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

Benh Zeitlin

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

Audrey Hepburn

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.