Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke

Al Roker

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Chris Cleave

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Cathy Freeman

When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.

Casey Affleck

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Michael Steele

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Charles Dickens

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

Charles Stross

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

Charles Stross

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Alanis Morissette

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Arkin

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Alan Ball

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Al Michaels

I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

Dane Bradshaw

We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.

Avery Johnson

We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then.

Geno Auriemma

We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it.

Michael Mann

When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love.

Nick Zito

We're going to see where we're at on March 4. The unfortunate thing is we might not see what we want to see, and the fortunate thing is at least it ain't May 4.

Antawn Jamison

When we first left, I think the most important thing was to come back and play well, like, 'You should have kept me around,' or 'You should have re-signed me. After that, it's just a point where you want to win, and we were fortunate enough to get the win, but also play pretty good games individually.

Bruce Benson

We're fortunate to have two people like that,

Tim Poole

We're fortunate to have two horses in the race and we hope they live up to their billing.

Jacque Bartow

We're fortunate to have so much depth. We wanted to rest some of the varsity kids and let the JV girls show what they could do.

Steve DiPatri

We started getting in foul trouble and it took us away from doing the things we wanted. It was our big girls in trouble, too, so we had to try to hide our weaknesses inside. They took advantage.

Larry Brown

When he gets into a little better shape and stays out of foul trouble, he'll stay in the game for longer stretches.

Jeff Shafer

We were trying to foul, and I didn't have any more timeouts to talk about it. We needed to foul a little more. They didn't know. They're young, they didn't know they needed to foul at that point.

Hayden Fry

We're going to foul up once in a while, but people need to know we don't do it on purpose. Playing the game with integrity-that's what it's all about.

Cathy Inglese

We got to the foul line a lot more.

Bobby Perry

We knew they were foul prone. Their big guys go after a lot of shots.

Bobby Bates

She can't get tired, she can't get in foul trouble because she means too much to us out there. If she gets tired in practice, I don't take her out because she's not going to come out in the game. I tell her getting tired is not an option, she can get that out of her head.

Jen Milne

She hasn't been in foul trouble all season. It was so uncharacteristic that it kind of left us at a loss for a little bit.

Harry DeFrank

She's a good shooter, a good foul shooter, too. She has a nice touch, and she can hit the boards. We worked with her on her inside game this year, and when she started doing the right things in practice then I started playing her more.

Alan Rickman

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Akshay Kumar

Kareena Kapoor is my lucky charm

Chita Rivera

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

David Mitchell

Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.

Casey Neistat

If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.

Bob Newhart

I've been a very lucky actor.

Diahann Carroll

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Edward Furlong

It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

Edward Snowden

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

Johnny Thomas

We have to find two offensive lineman to replace those guys. That's a priority.

Luke Babbitt

When your shots don't fall, you just have to go get offensive rebounds and keep working hard.

Clara Kassel

We've been able to run some offensive plays already.

Bryan McCabe

We know we've got the offensive here. The problem is our play defensively. We get away from it sometimes.

Erik Smith

we had a problem with people posting offensive pictures.

Steve Hutchinson

Walter is undoubtedly one of, if not the top, offensive lineman in the league.

Cameron Smith

Give big props to the offensive line. I know without them and the rest of the team, I couldn't do it. They spring me open. They're a big part of my success.

Jabari Levey

I feel like I could be a first day pick. This is going to be a big year for offensive linemen.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Bruno Tonioli

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Beatrice Lillie

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Aaron Tveit

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Spanish Proverb

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Michael Irvin

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Jason Marquis

You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down.

Ani Difranco

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Casey Stoner

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

William Shakespeare

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Charlaine Harris

I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Steve Alford

We've already got three up on the board.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Charles L. Allen

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

Chinua Achebe

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.