Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Robert Jarvik

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Rohit Shetty

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

Mark Williams

Luckily, we have 10 or 12 who are going to have to step up more, which is important. Obviously, we have a lot of finals experience in our side, and it's important for them to step up.

Diego Klattenhoff

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.

Estelle

Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.

Dan Fee

Lynn Swann doesn't have any experience and he doesn't have any policy proposals for the future, so he's left with attacks.

Nishi Silva

Life experience provides us feedback of our lives.On the other hand,trying to become an experienced person puts you in danger.We should let our selves get experience by the time only when your life is ready to provide it on the right time with the right people.

Jerry Sloan

Let them experience a day off in there, and see if they can keep themselves ready. It's important to see if any of them try to take the third game off.

John Foxe

Last year was our first opportunity (to be on MNF) in quite some time. Hopefully, we'll learn from that and understand what's at stake there. The whole world is watching. There's no question all of your peers are watching. It's something that guys should gear up for, and I think we'll learn from that experience last year.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

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.

Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Brad Goreski

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

Andy Serkis

Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.

Matt Hasselbeck

We went 8-0. We were the team that never punted. You can go back and see the trophy. It's printed on there.

Laura Moltedo

The scarves are a dream. We have very long printed double-velvet scarves to revive any outfit. (And) we go from that to a simple bandanna that you can tie to your neck.

David Lampton

They see a printed record here that is negative.

Tang Jiaxuan

The report that The New York Times printed is very irresponsible. It is also without basis,

Margaret Haddix

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

Paula Danziger

I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.

Diane Kruger

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

Aaron Eckhart

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Abhishek Bachchan

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

David Guterson

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Diana Gabaldon

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Diana Gabaldon

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Dominika Cibulkova

I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.

Ken Erickson

We were getting a little stretched. They could smell it, but they couldn't find it,

Dennis Hall

You know how they say stop and smell the roses? Well, there is a lot of truth to that,

Joan of Arc

Do you smell something burning or is it me?

Alan Bennett

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Chris Colfer

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Caitlin Flanagan

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

Cary Grant

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

Rhys Ifans

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.