Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

You know what kills me about Jennifer Lopez? The fact that this woman wakes up one day and she's like, 'You know what? From now on, I'd like people to call me J-Lo,' and then they do it. Only a celebrity can get away with this. George Bush doesn't come out for his morning press conferences: 'From now on, I'd like to be referred to as G-Bu. Y'all know my vice president, Dog Chain.

Carlos Castaneda

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

C. S. Lewis

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Holly Swoape

We have never really had any problems that I know of. Occasionally there are little scuffles -- between dogs or humans -- but nothing serious.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

Agnes Repplier

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

Agnes Repplier

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Agnes Repplier

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Agnes Repplier

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Kelly Gilmore

Whenever you have an evergreen property like Superman, retailers will enjoy enormous successbecause recognition is so high.

Ron Orlosky

We want people to enjoy life. Jess is probably looking down from heaven and smiling.

Gail Kautz

We were always very ambitious. We enjoy working hard. We had a lot of fun -- we're not done yet.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Bruce Moore

The process interests me. Trying different media, seeking out things to paint, going different places. I just enjoy the whole process. I find it very relaxing.

Joel Parkinson

When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.

David Sanborn

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

Jack Horner

The people in Rudyard are very, very friendly, and I think they very much enjoy having us there and we just have a generally good time there.

Susan B. Anthony

Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.

Alan Jackson

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Al Sharpton

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Chris Colfer

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

Chris Colfer

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

Brian Andreas

My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

Jamie Foxx

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

Kourtney Kardashian

My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.

Eddie Vedder

I got a great grandma. Her name is Pearl, and she was at one time married to an Indian chief, who, in a wonderful crossing of cultures, she integrated some of his, and some of hers, and um, it was a combination of peyote and preserves, and it was this hallucinogenic jam.

Carol Shields

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Carlos Beltran

I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.

Carlos Beltran

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

Carlos Fuentes

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Roger Williams

We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

Kane Moix

We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.

Richard Farmer

When everyone knows everything is going right for a company, sentiment is hard to improve.

Janet Yellen

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Don Madden

When he'd tell you a joke, you'd have to laugh because he was laughing so hard.

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Arun Jaitley

We have narrowed down the differences and are hopeful of reaching an understanding very soon.

Dee Bell

We have so many weapons on this team, we hope they'll just pick their poison on defense.

Tom DeLay

What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Laura Bush

When you see all these people working on it, I feel hopeful that people will be reunited,

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Megan Snow

We want our furniture. If we can't get our furniture, we hope to get our money back.

C. S. Lewis

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

C. S. Lewis

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)...

C. S. Lewis

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

George Shelley

We have sailboats, birds, pixies. They're decorative. They're a nicer look for your bottles.

Mike Jensen

Whenever you have something like that on your body, you just feel a little irregular. It'll be nice to feel regular.

Jeff Thompson

When everyone is working in their studios you don't really see what they are working on. So it's nice to see everything come together like this.

Curt Schilling

When you're young, you tend to do things like that because you want people to think you're a nice guy. At some point, I realized that I'm doing this not because I want people to think I'm a nice guy. I'm doing this because I think it's the right thing to do.

Nancy Norris

We want no stacks of paper, no boxes. We want all of our offices to have a nice crisp look.

Agnes Varda

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

Charlize Theron

I don't like rehearsal.

Brett Ratner

Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

Brad Dourif

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

Donald Rupe

I don't think we've had a rehearsal where someone hasn't cried.

Cory Michael Smith

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

Alison Pill

I would say my favorite was just the beginning of the movie like doing all the rehearsal stuff. It's been amazing to see the rest of it happen but it happens so piecemeal. And Edgar sort of has the whole movie edited in his head already, so we're just sort of matching to what he has.

Dylan Moran

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

Angela Lansbury

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

Luke Pasqualino

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Gia Coppola

My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.'

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

Shawn Wayans

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

Brittany Snow

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

Rob Riggle

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Debbie Allen

There were some scenes where I took ten takes and there were some where I took one.

Jennifer Ehle

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

Mike Costello

We seemed out flat-footed in the first and also didn't shoot well.

Leonard Maltin

What she said seemed to matter. She provoked response, discussion, arguments. She was so passionate.

Susan Meyer

When we started to look around for a new space, it seemed the space at COSI was a natural.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Carol Leifer

When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

C. S. Lewis

the sweet heavy smell grew very much less. For though the whole fire had not been put out, a good bit of it had, and what remained smelled very largely of burnt Marsh-wiggle, which is not at all an enchanting smell.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

C. S. Lewis

When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

Agnes Repplier

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

Agnes Repplier

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

Alan Titchmarsh

Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

Charlotte Bronte

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

Charlotte Bronte

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Carson McCullers

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

Nathan Barankin

a long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

John McCain

Torture doesn't work.

Sigmund Freud

Now it is nothing but torture.

William J. Clinton

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Scott Aukerman

I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.