Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kristy McNichol

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

Tom Glavine

Let's be honest, Pedro for five innings is better than no Pedro at all. With the way our bullpen is going to be structured, having a day off Tuesday, it might not be so bad to have him out there for only five innings -- assuming he's healthy and that's the most important thing.

Michael R. Bloomberg

make plans, assuming that there is a strike, and when they wake up in the morning, we all hope that they will be pleasantly surprised.

Nigel Winterburn

Lots of players can do it for 10-15 games but we want to see them do it for 40, 50, 100 or 200 games, winning titles again. That will be the big test. Everyone's assuming they will go from strength to strength. I hope they do because it's an exciting team. They haven't played a physical team away for a while and I hope they have learned the lesson that as well as all the good football you play you have to stand up to those teams.

Frank Aquila

My gut tells me that these guys will renegotiate the price and there will be a significant haircut. Assuming they're reasonable and want to get the deal done, there's got to be some middle ground they can find.

John Greene

When the new executive meeting center is complete, we intend to more aggressively target group business, with a goal of assuming a leadership position in this area.

Aaron Copland

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

Brian Platter

I was surprised, because I was assuming that either the no-limit would raise conversion so high that it would win, or that just keeping the threshold high, which would keep the average order value high, would win. I didn't expect the middle.

Sheldon Souray

I was skating back and yelling at him to freeze the puck. I was assuming that he was going to but he had a different idea. That's why communication is important.

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Chetan Bhagat

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Charles Kuralt

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

Aidan Chambers

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.