Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Charles Stross

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Alan Rickman

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

Alan Rickman

I love working in New York theater.

Alan Rickman

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

Alan Rickman

The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

Alan Brien

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

Alan Bullock

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

Alain Prost

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Al Seckel

I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.

David Sedaris

..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch

David Ginola

I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

Dave Barry

Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such as forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Alain Robert

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Bill Janklow

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

Carolyn Murphy

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

Paul Schubert

We can no longer be simply a hiking association. We must reach out.

Brownie McGhee

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Brownie McGhee

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Edward Abbey

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Dana Hill

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

Craig Ferguson

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.