Famous Quotes & Sayings

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Chad Hurley

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

Charice Pempengco

I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Ellen Wheeler

We're introducing the show to a new generation of people who are getting their entertainment in many, many different arenas,

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Zach Errett

We wrestled fairly well today. We wrestled at the Bo Henry Tournament last week; we wrestled really well there. Today, we didn't wrestle as good as we could've and I think the guys realize that; I think they kind of figured out that there may have been a few matches we lost that we should've won.

Casey Pace

We're hoping, of course, it's going to be fairly minimal since a lot of that fruit had already been picked.

Larry Walker

We knew this was going to happen, ... We knew probably a week before the playoffs we'd get it done. We did it. Everything has been right on time. I just hope we get the same results as the other shots. I think I played fairly well after the shots, so hopefully that will continue.

Christine Bachrach

When they were young teenagers, most of the participants had fairly healthy behaviors.

Lee Westwood

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Dickens

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Stross

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Alan Watts

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

Alan Watts

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

Alan Moore

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Alan Green

You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

Al Alvarez

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

Shereen El Feki

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it). Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Jerry Jones

Yeah, I did (think about it), ... Initially there, it looked like the grim reaper was sitting there on one of those crossbars, just overlooking the day. It seemed like everything we did, we got stopped on the field. But when we got (to overtime). I just thought it was our turn to score.

Mufi Hannemann

Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of the importance of preparedness,

Manmohan Singh

From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.

Eric Lascelles

This report was largely in line with expectations. It was a grim report.

Roger Clemens

Maybe, I'm the Grim Reaper, ... I miss a start and we scored 10 runs.

Tim Curry

I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax. And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.

Tim Curry

I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax, ... And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Alan Paton

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

Al Pacino

Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

Ari Adler

We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

Kim Anderson

There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,

Eduardo Galeano

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Donald Rumsfeld

does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Robert Redford

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Jay Gibbons

We see reporters that we have never seen before,

Floyd Abrams

Reporters should keep their word to their sources.

Jan Johnson

The sports reporters got everything all worked up.

Tim Russert

Hey, do you know that all the reporters know that Mr. Wilson's wife works at the CIA?

Gwendolyn Brooks

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Charlie Bewley

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Alan Ball

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

Al Hirt

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.

China Chow

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Dave Barry

Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can't, he doesn't.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.