Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Peter Davison

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

Alan Bates

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

David Warner

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Prowse

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Warner

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Jared Harris

There are many cases where the direction of the play comes from within the cast of actors, especially in terms of the choices in performance.

John Leeson

I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s.

John Thaw

I feel very proud to have created a character that is so respected. On the other hand, as an actor, I have more freedom now to do other things.

Mallory Ortberg

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

Rod Wright

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

Chipper Jones

We're not coming out here to go home after the first round. That would be a supreme disappointment.

Kurt Melton

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Herman Cain

We're not coming into Virginia to be a one-note Johnny.

E. B. White

We're not coming here with any false illusions.

Leinaala Lopes

We're not coming back until it is safe and secure.

Doug Holmes

Mandatory dues. Not only that, they were coming in there telling me you need to do this, you need to do that.

Susan Cohen

Life is lived in a circle. The dates keep coming back to you. People say, 'Move on.' But that implies a straight road taking you somewhere else. Nothing can take you out of the seasons of the years and the dates that recall your life. And since we were a happy family together, we had many happy days and those days are now sad days.

Mallory Ortberg

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

Jim Black

Lorene, like every other member of the House, has to make her own decision as to which leaders she supports. I am constantly talking with members of the House who support me and want to work together on our shared goals, and I will continue to do so.

Theresa May

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Ulysses Yannas

Many retailers have gone through the season constantly lowering prices. Sure, you create sales but at what cost?

Herbert Thompson

Software is not static -- it is constantly changing. You can't just measure the executable; you need to measure the vendor.

Jennifer Egan

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.

Jeff Murray

One of the things that we see constantly with university folks is that they have grants, they get funding to do research, a research program lasts maybe two to five years and then they need to go and use that space for something else.

Drew Goddard

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

David Irving

Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you can't trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling them what to write.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!

Susan Walvius

She's just starting to get back into the loop. And I think sometimes the SEC can be a little daunting for all freshmen when you're looking at kids that you've had their poster up on your wall. When you're facing a Georgia or Tennessee, we need to work her in and let her get a feel for the game.

Tom Brokaw

The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

Laurie Holden

It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.

Jim Hall

We are dealing with water 250 feet deep and recovering and locating small objects ... is a daunting effort.

Nancy Kress

The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

Phil Jackson

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

Frank Cilluffo

He combines high-tech means with very rudimentary means. That makes following his tracks a very daunting task.

Preston Beckman

I think the thing with Thursday night is, it's not the daunting night it used to be. Everyone feels they can go in and make some noise.

John Friend

Leroy's also a special human being. I've told parents how fortunate they are to have this guy heading up the program and dealing with their kids.

Brian Meyers

Many information workers spend a majority of their time trapped at their desk dealing with e-mail.

Roy Wilsher

So, it just puts some perspective on what we're dealing with.

Ciara

My inspiration is European fashion. I'm really into Euro fashion, and I also love rock n' roll. That's the mentality that I like to have when I'm dealing with fashion.

David Reddy

One of the very important things to point out here is that we are not dealing with a human pandemic strain yet, thank goodness.

Johnny Almaraz

One morning, all his stuff was gone. He's home in New York dealing with personal problems which have impacted a lot of decisions he's made here. We're empathetic and sympathetic towards that, but it's pretty tough to try to help somebody when there's no communication.

Bill Sullivan

Obviously, we're going to be dealing with thin markets. The influence of the holiday should dampen the war rhetoric, but if there are any surprises we could get exaggerated moves in prices for sure.

Roger Wright

No one really had any idea what the pick-up might be because we're dealing with such an immature marketplace. One person from a major record label said that it's like the Wild West, no one really knows what's out there.

Greg Amacker

My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and the administrative duties.

Robert Mankoff

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Kristin Cast

I was really the first-line editor of the 'House of Night' series. I didn't write that much of the story, and I didn't know what was happening until my mom finished the book and sent it to me because I wanted to read it with fresh eyes as a general reader would.

Charles Stross

Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LUMINARY, n. One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

James Salter

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

John Glen

Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director.

Frank Darabont

My editor and I had a theory that if the movie engages their attention, they won't mind sitting there for three hours - which I find true myself.

Dean Koontz

There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Hanya Yanagihara

From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Seamus Heaney

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Tessa Hafen

Senator Reid has done nothing wrong and he doesn't see any reason why he would need to return the money.

Don Braunecker

Megan Richardson was a big reason for our success (Tuesday) night.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is reason at rest in God.

Deborah Tannen

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Edgar Allan Poe

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Taylor Vichorek

For some reason OTs haven't treated us as well as we hoped.

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Stephen Leacock

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something

Sammy Cahn

The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

Felix Rohatyn

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

Dick Cheney

We are not going to simply stand by.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

Lars Larsen

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Alexandra Adornetto

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Elizabeth Drew

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Eliot Spitzer

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.

David Jenkins

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Edward Witten

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.

Trinity Morgan

She's understanding the value of that. She worked ridiculously hard.

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.