Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Brown

We're finding more and more people coming out of the woodwork, ... They're appearing in places we didn't know they existed.

Liv Tyler

Life excites me. I'm not talking about appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting, you know ?

Kate Reardon

There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

Elliot Perlman

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

Elliot Perlman

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

John P. Kotter

We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.

Darrel Good

Similar to corn, USDA soybean production forecasts had the largest impact on soybean futures prices in August, with recent price reactions appearing somewhat larger than in the past.

Freddie Stroma

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.

Kevin Mitnick

People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.

Dick Thompson

The outbreak is in northern Iraq. There are lots of challenges there, largely associated with terrain and weather. It's cold and wet, and there are steep sided valleys that the team is moving through.

David McKeown

The outbreak is confined to residents and staff and people closely associated with this one facility, so it's not a general public health risk.

Bob Schultz

We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission. Working with Stanford and NASA, we formed a powerful team to develop the challenging technologies needed to take a giant step forward in helping understand Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Bob Schultz

We are proud to have been associated with this extremely significant mission,

Idan Ofer

We are proud to be associated with DP World and look forward to working with them into the future.

John Reid

We believe that there are elements of Iranian society - I put it no higher than that - who may well be associated with the attacks on British troops,

Scott Graham

There are certain voices that you just associate with a big game, Super Bowl, or whatever it is. These voices are the ones I grew up listening to. The best I can say to them is, 'Thank you.' They set a standard of quality so high that the rest of us are way behind.

David Heymann

There are some feelings that possibly live game markets might have been associated with some of the earlier cases, but this is only hypothesis.

Tony Esposito

When you've got a perennial loser, who likes to go? Attendance is down because people like to be associated with winners.

Herb Sendek

When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.

Laura Carmichael

I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

Ken Lynch

Tom was a brilliant chairman who raised thousands of pounds for the association and I am sure Mitchell will also do a great job.

John Terry

What a great performance. We got a brilliant start. In the second half we pressed them and they didn't like it. We got our reward in the end.

Mark Cuban

With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn't work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a system they understand and buy into. We've got guys who might not be great defenders, but they work hard at that end. Now, we're more geared to play defense.

Eric Kanagy

We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting.

Damon Wayans

There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once.

Alexandra Roach

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

Beatrice Arthur

Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Lucas Till

'Crush' was my first number one on the call sheet.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

Lorraine Toussaint

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Tim Palmer

We've always been deep on the bench, ... and it just proves that we can play with any team.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep

Bill Bray

When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-trailers with graffiti on them. Welcome to New Brunswick.

Nicola Formichetti

It's so important as a creative person to go out and look for things. Go to galleries, talk to people, read books. Yes, you can just type something into Google, but if you read and interact, you'll have a deeper understanding of the world.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.

Herbert A. Simon

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

Louis Navellier

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Robert Kazinsky

I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.

Bridgit Mendler

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

Erica Cerra

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!

Robert Stephens

The only people who have time to learn all this stuff are geeks who stay home on Saturday night.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

William Zabka

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

Corey Taylor

I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?

Charles Caleb Colton

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Al Sharpton

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

Akshay Kumar

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

Chris Bauer

I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. Those days have passed me by, but I would do it. If it meant that I was in a scene naked with a woman, or anybody romantic, I'd be into it.

Chip Kelly

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Dave Franco

I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

Dave Franco

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

Dave Chappelle

I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I’m more insecure than I ever let anyone know. Sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

Ben Stiller

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Deb Caletti

A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

Edward Snowden

There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.

Alan Ladd

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

Charles de Lint

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

Bob Saget

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

Beth Moore

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

Ari Graynor

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

Maureen Murphy

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Wally Schirra

John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's quite normal. It's not a macho thing -- it's something that can happen.

Michael Lehmann

I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

Jeb Bush

This is not the time to be defiant or to kind of let people know that you're a macho man. There are other ways to do that in life,

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bill Miller

We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Chet Baker

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

Dave Franco

Recently I've been looking for something new. The past few projects I've worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I'm a nice guy and not the asshole that everyone keeps seeing.

David Schwimmer

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

Nancy O'Dell

You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

Kazeronnie Mak

Nothing is difficult, if one can overcome with it !

Adam Brown

He was able to overcome everything. He's an inspiration to me and to others.

Charles Clark

I think we will be able to overcome these issues,

Manmohan Singh

If we work together, we can overcome these problems,

Shane Jabaar

If we can keep him pain-free for a long time, he can overcome it.

Chad Bankston

We're young right now and we're trying to overcome some of that. We just weren't able to punch it in down in the red zone.

Michael Cole

Yeah, they're good. It will be another challenge. But if we play well, we can overcome it.

Carlos Parreira

We should have played better, especially in the first half, but we were able to overcome our difficulties.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Hayley Hasselhoff

I've never worn plus size brands, and I never had to because I found what worked for my body type. So my advice is to find what works for you.

Ron Gardenhire

He did a super job. That'll be a plus for us.

Tim Purpura

He can play all three (outfield) positions, and he runs exceptionally well and has a plus arm, ... He's more of a speed-and-defense type of guy.

Michael Vick

This time it's going to be in different weather conditions. I think that will be a plus for us.

Micky Arison

I think that was a big psychological plus for us.

Julia Mancuso

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Bob Walsh

I tell them this isn't about me, it's about you. This is your time. I keep telling them not to worry about that stuff, that if we go out and try to keep getting better every game, we'll get 600 plus some.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am I plus my circumstances.

Tim Tucker

They're used to winning. Plus they understand the tournament trail.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Will Rothhaar

I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.

Arnold Palmer

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Tim Donovan

Whether you have to go to Groveland or Timbuktu, ... there should always be an official. It's tough to find volunteers.

Avery Johnson

We're making progress, but it was just a tough loss.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know (what to do), ... If we have to make a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision.

Joe Torre

When we get to that point, we'll probably know, ... If it's a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision. But I don't know what we're going to do. Mel has written it down all the way to the end of the season, but there are a lot of scratch-outs.

David Sedaris

My boyfriend got me a computer three years ago. I'll admit it does make things a lot easier. When I was working on a typewriter and I whited out a line, often I would choose a word to go in the space just because it fit. Now I don't have to do that.

Charles Kuralt

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Bobbi Brown

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

Bob Marley

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Billy Bob Thornton

I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.

Kevin Rahm

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

Daniel Handler

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.