Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Mina

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

Derrick Rose

In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.

Derrick Rose

I believe that I'm a special player. I think people love the way I just try to play. I don't try to impress anyone when I'm playing or anything. I just have a feel for the game.

Cathleen Schine

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

Celia Imrie

My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

Cass Sunstein

When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question.

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

Dave Gibbons

In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

Bethany Hamilton

I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?

Bernie Siegel

The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.

Louis Farrakhan

Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.

Kim Gordon

I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.

Curtis Brown

To have a goalie that you know is proven and is going to do as good a job as anyone in the league doesn't just help keep pucks out of the net, it changes the attitude of the team,

Though this was certainly unexpected, all the reports we've gotten back say there is no threat to anyone. We were glad to learn the tank was empty and there are no environmental concerns. Anyone who has or had a child playing on the field shouldn't be concerned about toxins.

We don't have great speed at the receiver position, and I don't think there is anyone who is going to get a lot faster anytime soon.

Mike Hargrove

We don't have anyone with an exceptional move, no one like Kenny Rogers. But there are other ways of holding runners.

We don't have anyone who can deal with Quigley. She averages 22 and 12 and we don't want her going off for 28 and 20 or 25 and 15.

We don't have anyone in the pipeline right now. But, we'll probably go with the chief's recommendation.

Tubby Smith

We don't have anyone else leaving for the NBA. We are having meetings with our players right now.

Holt McCallany

I've done a lot of fight scenes, and I always find that it's better that they be meticulously choreographed. You want them to look as real as possible, but you don't want anyone to get hurt. So I believe in really working it out in rehearsal, and when you get to the set, just go for it 100 percent.

Henning Mankell

In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.

When you see something like this, it begs asking what failure in their system led to this. Why didn't anyone pick it up?

Geno Auriemma

We're not taking anyone for granted and we're playing for the Big East championship.

Paul Saffo

We're not so many years away from companies offering kits for the compulsive, ... (But) anyone that compulsive isn't going to lose something.

We're not saying we want anyone to throw tomatoes. But if they don't like it there's always the money-back guarantee.

We are satisfied that this is being settled as a civil matter. Despite a long, thorough and high-profile investigation, the government has not charged anyone at Wal-Mart with wrongdoing.

We are on the same side as the NCAA. We want nothing but a fair and true game. If anyone is going to get hurt by a crooked or fixed game it's the bookmakers.

We are on the brink ... and anyone who thinks the political situation is manageable at this rate of economic deterioration is going to be shocked.

Harlan Coben

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online.

Yaya Han

For me, I've such a steady presence throughout the community that I think if anyone can raise up to the challenge of presenting the face of cosplay, it could be me. Not to be vain, but I've had the training to be in this position.

Timothy Noah

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.

Imelda May

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'