Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Kohn

Our own faculty has gotten sensitized to the issue that there's a bunch of people that just don't get it.

Billy Lange

People keep looking at them and saying, 'Ah they are not that good,' but that's a bunch of baloney. That's a very, very good team. They've got great guards who know how to win.

Dick Costolo

People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.

Janice Williams

People in there are always trying to rob Sam. Sam has called police a whole bunch of times.

Michael Curry

Steve and Robert have been really great about stepping up to cover a bunch of courses, ... And Melissa is a temporary faculty member, primarily filling in for Susan. I think everyone, including the students, has tried to roll with it.

Dennis McAlpine

Some of these movies could be in trouble. I suspect that a bunch will fall by the wayside. There is not enough demand.

John Gamble

Some of them know about my career but some of them don't have a clue. But I don't think they place a whole bunch of importance on it.

Tyler Cowen

Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'

Tim Kirby

Someone offered me a bunch of money for it. I couldn't do it. I'm too attached.

Anthony Williams

Standing together, we won't let a coward like this disrupt our way of life.

Don Jesser

I was a cowboy through and through, inside and out.

Irish Proverbs

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Bill Bryson

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

Mike Todd

The antlers are private property, but the cows (elk) and does are public.

Irish Proverb

It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.

Randy Smith

I'm seriously considering eliminating the cow hunts on the unit (Unit 43).

Rayfield Wright

I don't know whether it's really hit me yet. Being the first offensive lineman in the history of the Dallas Cowboys in the Hall of Fame is sort of overwhelming in a lot of ways.

Cilla Black

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

Mia Kirshner

I think we all have scenes where we watched and go, Oh my God. How could I do this? But you can't do that when you're filming it.

Lars Trier

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

Alex Kapranos

I got recognized around the pool the other night. They were filming a party for the E! channel. It was really distressing because there were all these wanna-be celebrities. I was trying to get out of there before the Steven Seagal look-alike shook my hand, and I thought, 'Please, God, tell me I'm not of this world'.

Fionnula Flanagan

We had a wild night out with them in Wilmington (North Carolina, where filming took place).

Kevin Spacey

She found a kind of possession of this role, ... There were moments during filming that I was just startled at where she was going.

H. Hart

Losing all that weight really does mess up your metabolism up. After we finished filming I put on a stone in less than a week. That's not normal.

Timothy Olyphant

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic.

Liam James

A local newspaper where we were filming in Boston called me the Justin Bieber of Canada. I don't think they realized Justin Bieber is from Canada. I hope someday I can just be the Liam James of Canada.

Michael Kennedy

People have been talking about it, and the reason they have been talking about it is that it looks very ominous. The joke is, is there a prison going in there?

David Collins

People may say it was meant as a joke and we're being fuddy-duddies. But we don't see it like that.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Taylor Twellman

He jokes around -- when he looks up, he sees The Big Head. When he sees The Big Head, he reads where I'm going.

Teller

People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'

Nipsey Russell

is very simple to do.... I start with the joke line and write backward.

Robin Ince

I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either.

Michael Lehmann

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Fred Jacobeit

He's got a big butt, and all the kids joke about it all the time.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Matthew Stover

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Edward Norton

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

Barry Mann

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Cecil Taylor

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?

Cecil Taylor

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

Cecil Taylor

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Anton Rubinstein

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Nick Bennenbroek

Part of the reason for the dollar's weakness today is positioning,

Lee Rainie

Part of the reason for that is resources,

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Someone had blundered:/ Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not to reason why,/ Theirs but to do and die.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Graeme Smith

We never really got a reason from the umpires, I think that was probably the most frustrating part.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Andrew Strauss

I think there'll be a result and if we play like we have done there's no reason why we can't win it from this position,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Tom Peters

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.

Adam Jones

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

Tim Waters

This whole thing sounds real familiar, like what they said about NAFTA,

Jill Scott

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Bill Self

He'll wear a splint when he's not practicing. (On the court) he'll tape it up and be fine.

Alfonso Soriano

When I look at myself on tape I can see that, but I just didn't make the adjustments at the time.

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

David Nicholls

Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

Dave Grohl

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

Glen Hanlon

We'll watch this tape and use it as a teaching tool for our group.

Anne Lamott

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Albert Brooks

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

Doug Stanhope

I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now.