Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Alexandra Paul

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Alexandra Paul

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

Alexandra Fuller

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

Robert MacNeil

But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.

Robert Klein

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.

Malcolm McDowell

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

Tony Blair

Let no one be in doubt that the rules of the game are changing, ... If you come to our country from abroad, don't meddle in extremism.

Mark Gottfried

LSU is one of the better teams in the country. Their front line is tremendous.

John Ashcroft

making it the country with the fourth highest rate of legal immigrants.

Malorie Blackman

I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

Peter Fonda

LSD was designed for you to look inside yourself. Quite a liberating experience if you can pull it off.

Jim Kennedy

made a good-faith effort to respond to the questions despite the fact that they were designed more for a partisan purpose than a constitutional one.

Walter Crane

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

Samuel Johnson

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Amity Gaige

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Jeffery Lackney

Several major educational trends are shaping the planning and design of 21st-century schools.

Mark Keller

Miss Copley, you're not going to like any of this, ... Your stay is too short. It's designed for punishment. Period.

Jed Connelly

Mini showed what the power of good design can do, and how profitable it can be.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

David Grayson

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

Jamaican Proverb

Make a friend when you don't need one

Bill Bradley

Lowell has been a friend for many years. He is someone I respect. I think he is someone who is respected in American life as a stand-up guy,

Dennis Flynn

Leroy Marsh and John Friend made me what I am today,

John Jamison

Mike is a guy who trusts his friends.

Olindo Mare

Matt was a good buddy. He got hurt, though. I don't think it really mattered, friendship or no friendship. You can't punt when you're hurt. That's why they got Donnie, and Donnie had a good game.

Will Rogers

Mayor Scott and I go to the same church. He's a friend of mine ... I just think I can provide stronger leadership.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Sven Eriksson

From what I know about Michael Owen, he would never say things like that. It's not his style.

John Salley

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

Jeff Overton

I don't even know what to think yet. Michael Putnam and I waited all summer to turn pro to play in this. Man, it was worth it.

Akiva Schaffer

Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.

Loretta Lynch

Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

Michael Caine

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed.

Terry Stotts

We need everybody. We can't rely on Michael to always have 25, 30 points, and we've done that all year. It can't come from one guy, it has to be contributions from everybody.

Brendon Ayanbadejo

Well, naturally, I'm Sean Michael Thomas or whatever his name is.

Rachel Sklar

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

Joe Tiller

So, I want to thank Pluto and Mickey and Donald, and all my relatives.

Patrick Fischler

I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

Brad Renfro

Mickey Rourke was the Brad Renfro of the '80s.

Dan Brown

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Dennis Scott

I thought I was going to South Beach. But I went here, to see Mickey Mouse.

Jim Parrack

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

Michael Graves

As a child, I was obsessed with drawing things, like Mickey and Donald. And houses. My mother was worried I'd become an artist.

Rick Aguilera

Hey, how you doing? That a Mickey Mouse hat?

Billy Martin

Say, ... do you know Mickey and Rocky?

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Bobby Flay

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Amy Carlson

I'm a restaurant junkie.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.

Rob Stevens

When I went to school, I didn't think I would have a restaurant so quickly, but I always wanted to get back downtown. Paine's is kind of a place for everyone.

Tim Hall

We'd have to look at the way our restaurant is configured as to whether we could serve or not.

Bob Fox

We would have a sitter. And the two of us would take off. We used to spend a lot of time at a restaurant in town. Sometimes we would go to a movie, sometimes we'd just drive.

JoAnne Graf

She had a rocky first game. But Tiffany has really responded.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

Bill Belichick

We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.

Lester Pines

It was a description, frankly, of Rocky Rococo.

Glenn Plum

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.

Randy Cretors

If we don't play San Benito, I'd probably get fired.

Robert Scoble

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Rosalynn Carter

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

Gary Hart

This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

Christian Bale

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Peter Murray

More is going on now than at any time since the Victorians.

Mark Brunell

Obviously, it's been a long time since he's been in the playoffs, but he is used to winning in the playoffs.

Tyler Bolick

Basically, salaries have stayed the same since I started.

William Petty

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

Roberto Galvan

I have been here since Sunday. We are waiting for the blow.

Michelle Post

She's been working it since October. She wanted to throw it a lot earlier.

Kathy Connolly

She's been here since 5 a.m. this morning.

Jeremy Bloom

One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily.

Chris Crutcher

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

Chris Evert

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Chris Evert

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Chris Evert

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Chris Cornell

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

Dick Vitale

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

Diane Kruger

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

Lindy Ruff

No, no. We haven't talked about that. Until you're in, you're not in.

Richard Flanagan

My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.

David Akers

I can't say we haven't talked about that,'' Reid said,

Jenn Giel

She talked more around him, responded more to him.

Davey Johnson

I don't know anything about it. Nobody's talked to me.

Pat Howard

I don't know what he's doing. We have talked to him and he is going to have a look at all his options.

Mark Ford

We never had a plan. We just walked around and talked about it, and he did it.

Mike Maroth

We got together and talked some things out.

Tony Gwynn

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too.

Ricky Gutierrez

We traveled on (U.S.) 190 through Livingston and Huntsville,

Scott Niedermayer

I was trying to get it up in the corner. How it traveled into the net, I can't tell you.

John Fusco

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

Paulo Coelho

Every road i traveled led back to you