Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

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.

Zia McCabe

She's very well-mannered. She's getting used to the travelling now. This is her in a grumpy mood.

Joe Vitt

Don't worry about me, I'm fine. We looked like grumpy old men. I tell you, it was a sore sight.

Lincoln Castellanos

We know that he isn't just a grumpy old guy who doesn't want to hang out and talk to kids.

Anderson Cooper

I'm probably the oldest 38-year-old I know - sort of a grumpy old man.

Nicholas Hoult

I can be a bit grumpy. Im full of angst, and hormones.

Nick Frost

I don't describe myself as a sociable person now. I can be quite... you know... grumpy? Is that a word? I guess I can be a bit grumpy.

Penelope Wilton

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Christopher McQuarrie

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

T. J. Miller

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

John Irving

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them,

Joaquin Phoenix

I was an actor because the work was rewarding. I never imagined that it would all lead to this moment.

Karen Knight

This was not something that was expected. We never imagined we'd be working with this population.

Julie Daum

Some have made more money than they expected. Some have been merged out of a job. Some have been as successful as they could have imagined and feel it's time to move to the next phase of their lives.

Jose Ramos

I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.

Romesh Gunesekera

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

William Rose Benet

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

Eric Dubin

He winked and smiled at me like we were at the beach.

Robert Levy

When she smiled, we smiled and when she cried, we cried.

Robert Blair

Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.

John Donaldson

Not at Susan, but he smiled at me.

Peter Johnson

I haven't smiled so much in all my life.

Jay Wright

We were having a tough time speeding them up.

Maureen McCormick

It's only a traffic infraction. It's like a speeding ticket." ()

Lee Baig

They have not even a speeding ticket in their backgrounds so to make them out as cold-blooded killers is preposterous.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

Simon Sinek

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Luke Bracey

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Baltasar Gracian

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Sandra Lee

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

Carson McCullers

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Ted Morgan

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

Antonio Gramsci

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

Antonio Gramsci

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Antonio Porchia

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

Robert Barnes

What I am telling you is that Matta had a way of making you feel comfortable and that's probably why he had nine wives because he made them feel comfortable and then uncomfortable later.