Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Robert Osborne

For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Ronald Kessler

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Malcolm McDowell

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

Shawn Amos

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Jahangir Khan

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

Mark Ishikawa

Screeners have been distributed to Academy members and many of them are already appearing online.

Sean Conway

Senator Allard wants them to look at the Air Force Academy from leadership through process.

David DeMartini

Much like he had an opportunity to work with Puzo and kind of evolve the book into a screenplay - which obviously required some modification to what Puzo had done - I just hope that he respects that we were targeting a different customer and we're trying to keep this fiction alive. The book's a great book; the movie's Academy Award winning; and hopefully the game will get a tremendous amount of acclaim as well. Just respect each of those works for what they are, I think that's the best way for us all to look at it.

Brian Idalski

Obviously, I get to see the kids every day and see how hard they work, so I would like to see them get a little more recognition. If it came down to individual awards or a chance to keep playing, everyone would choose to keep playing.

Jane Elliot

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Inzamam-ul Inzamam-ul

Frankly speaking, I am hoping to win both the awards I have been nominated for. But any of the two would be more than welcomed because I think it would be a universal recognition of your achievements and performance,

Joe Thornton

From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two awards are definitely team-oriented, and we're just happy for each other.

Robert Cray

I gotta stay in the business! I gotta keep working! I mean, all of those awards and all that stuff is just something you put on your wall, man. The name of the game is to continue working. That's what it's all about. We're a working band. We can't just sit around and think, "Well, I don't have to work anymore".

Rudy Morrow

I loved it. I was very happy to be selected Freshman of the Year. Then you get hungry and you want to get all the awards like player of the week and all that. That got my mouth watering.

Steven Cojocaru

I have a big mouth and I'm very opinionated, like most of my friends are, especially my girlfriends the day after an awards show,

Nina Tassler

Shes an incredibly multi-talented performer whose comedic skills and energy promise to deliver an Emmy Awards broadcast to remember.

Jared Leto

She's so heartbreaking in this movie. I don't think they make enough awards to give her.

Kristy McNichol

A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

Robert McKinley

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Dave Wannstedt

Leonard can make big plays; he's already shown that ... The biggest thing about this team is they have talent and experience on offense.These guys are all seniors and most of them have played for two or three years.

George Borjas

Low-skill ... illegal immigration has the biggest negative impact on the wage of low-skill workers.

Russ Diamond

Leadership controlling it all is the biggest problem we have in Harrisburg. That makes (for) very few Pennsylvanians being represented there.

Melissa Allen

Last year was huge. It's probably the biggest fundraiser we've ever done for the Family Life Center. We raised about $4,000.

Rob Ridings

Last year, we were just hoping to win games. Now, we have the mindset that we have a chance to win and we expect to win. That's one of the biggest changes our kids have made in the last year.

Damien Mason

Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person.

Jim Damoulakis

Many organizations have ILM initiatives or are interested in starting one because of all the publicity. But the biggest driver is that storage costs are growing at an astronomical rate, and they're being mandated to cut the storage budget.

R. Robinson

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

Steve Collins

I got on the carpet at home and watched my stroke in the patio glass,

Erin O'Connor

I had one particular handbag disaster when I couldn't get into it, and when I finally did, it flew over the red carpet and was caught by 200 lenses. Not a great moment.

Ginny DeGroff

She gathers the laundry with her mouth and drags her dog blankets off the carpet so I can vacuum.

Derek Blasberg

Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn't as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of 'Jersey Shore.' Too little, and she'll look like a sister wife.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Richard Doherty

The PC has tripped on the carpet going into the living room.

Brunello Cucinelli

There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.

Walter Crane

Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

Christian Lacroix

Much later, designers like Dior and Saint Laurent recreated styles form the '30s and '40s.

Eric Berg

The only future for designers in Paris is to sell to a big group or to work for one,

Kym Whitley

I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.

Roz Savage

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Richard Martin

She was incredibly important. She was one of that first group in the 1930s of designers recognized by name.

Tamara Tunie

I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.

Stewart Butterfield

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

William McDonough

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

Ryan Ford

Maybe I am more about sensuality than sexuality now, maybe not quite so in your face, ... I also think that eyewear right now, and in other product categories, is in a moment where people want some authenticity, they want value, they don't want to feel it is quite so transient and trendy and empty, as a lot of the things that all of us in the fashion industry were doing in the late nineties.

Carolyn Murphy

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

Diane Kruger

The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

Diane Kruger

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

Denis Diderot

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

Debra Winger

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

Debra Messing

I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.

Dieter Rams

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

Edgar Allan Poe

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

Monica Crowley

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

Dean Koontz

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

Brenda Bell

If we could get rid of these hurricanes and red tide, we'd be OK. We've just been killed this year with all of that.

Francis Coppola

I have come here to rediscover myself as an artist.

Daron Rahlves

I'd like to be wearing the red (leader's) bib in downhill.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Matt Grow

We are running in the red of about $120,000 a year.

Bobbi Brown

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.