Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Osborne

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Malcolm McDowell

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Sophia Collier

My grandmother was quite an intrepid woman, ... She was somebody I admired a great deal, who took an interest in me and encouraged me to be all I could be and get out in the world.

Stephanie Herseth

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

Tessa Thompson

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

Tom Stoppard

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Alan Meltzer

For years we have admired Don's expertise and presence in the community. We are excited to have him join our team.

Emile Cioran

If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse.

Percy Sutton

I was so sorry to hear about the setting sun of that great American John H. Johnson. He was an icon to me. He was a leader who developed communications between all categories of Black people. I knew him well and admired him deeply, and I will pray for his soul.

Vint Cerf

We're not confident that the funds will be made available and we don't want to rely on them, ... The GIP decided we should provide some certainty.

Erin Campbell

Like any brand-new statewide program, there are details that have to be worked out, and that's what is going on right now. We're very happy that we were able to get this program started ... and available to seniors and lower-income Vermonters to make sure they have enough fuel to heat their homes this winter.

Janet Reno

making all necessary documents and personnel available to the committee.

Mari Adam

Make sure you have other cash resources available equivalent to three months living expenses.

David Hewson

Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.

Scott Johnson

Losing the premier half-back in the northern hemisphere was a blow. He has injured his AC joint and he certainly won't be available next week, that's for sure. The boys who have come back from the Lions tour have had a hard year and he will be glad of the rest.

Ken Roshaven

(Lopez) wants to keep it at a number so she can have contact with everyone. She and DiMarco will make themselves available to those playing in the tournament and will be very hands-on.

Ed Goren

Lou was looking forward to working the Series, but family comes first. He still might be available if the hurricane turns left or right.

Eli Segal

Many small businesses do not have the knowledge about what incentives are available to them.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Sophia Amoruso

My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.

David Lagercrantz

My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.

Jacques Barzun

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,

Koichiro Matsuura

For scientific achievements to serve the most possible people, scientists should work in a responsible way, with respect for cultural diversity, personal freedom and human dignity,

Mohsin Hamid

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

John Bell

One of their specialties is restoration. I'd say two-thirds to three-quarters of their work is in cultural venues, and a lot of them have been historic properties.

Daniel Renouard

I would put little credibility in it. It would be expensive and the cultural differences are pretty big.

Chad Kroeger

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Edmund Burke

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, those who do not walk in the ways of sin, shall be exalted in the world hereafter.

Wendell Mayes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

Campbell Scott

To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

Nicolas Boileau

Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.

Pope XVI

We know well that this truth risks being contradicted by the hedonism of the so-called well-off societies: Life is exalted as long as it's pleasant, but one tends to not respect it any more when it is sick or damaged.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Robert Herrick

And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head

Charles Spurgeon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Henry Chan

One thing that tended to surprise a lot of people this year is that the market was going up on the back of very little net foreign inflow.

Fawaz Gerges

Neither spin nor propaganda will do. And what the studies show is what's needed is a radical transformation of American foreign policy

Ignacio Bunye

Further meetings were held by the two foreign ministries and this is the result.

Joyce Banda

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Kate Grenville

Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.

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.

Meg Tilly

I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

Sigourney Weaver

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Banksy

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Olly Murs

To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.

Miguel Rosario

Three males ran from the scene of the hit-and-run on the night it happened. We're working with two witnesses, so we have the three males that were running identified.

Jim Tharp

We needed more romantic-minded males to show up this weekend.

Bryan White

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Catherine Hardwicke

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

George Jones

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Eddie Van Halen

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Elizabeth Bowen

one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.

Dizzy Gillespie

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Letitia Baldrige

She's not going to have any trouble at all,

Linda Killian

She's never been in trouble with the law, not ever.

William Shakespeare

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Tom Davis

We were having trouble getting out on the shooters. They just drilled us.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

David Tang

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

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This...

Dennis Prager

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Franz

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dee Dee Myers

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Kym Whitley

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Jack Hooper

That makes them widely consumable all over the world.

Jeffrey Berger

Aspirin is a drug that has been used for many years - it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Dr. Berger

Aspirin has been used for many years, it is well-understood, effective, inexpensive and widely available.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.