Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Suzan-Lori Parks

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

Diana Quick

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

Vesta Williams

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Val Guest

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

Imelda May

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Scott Bakula

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Henry Fonda

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Robin Leach

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Will Thomas

We were getting the shots we wanted. They just weren't going down. Hats off to their defense, but we just couldn't make our shots.

Catherynne M. Valente

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

John Salmons

When we went up early, I think we kind of thought that was it, that they were going to give up. You've got to take your hats off to them. They kept on fighting.

Bella Abzug

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Diana Wynne Jones

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Diana Wynne Jones

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Craig Kilborn

Apparently, six women claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them while working on his movies. Hats off to these women who admit they worked on Arnold's movies.

Billy Beane

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

Keith Adams

We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man.

Erica White

One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a factor, and work schedules. A lot of them work at night.

Christopher Darden

My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.

Rep. Hogue

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Parry Aftab

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

Tom Riley

She was just a victim of her parents' callousness,

Vanessa Williams

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

Missy Clark

We had no clue. We want parents to do the research, get informed, talk to their kids.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Mike Gonzalez

We're struggling in the bullpen, too. The whole staff is struggling.

Denis Diderot

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Mark Adelson

From now on, only the plainest vanilla versions will be permissible, nothing elaborate.

Scott Adkins

I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.

Andrew Jackson

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

Alexander Smith

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

William Shakespeare

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.