Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah McLachlan

I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

Feist

I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

Maria Sharapova

Today was probably one of the hottest days I've ever experienced in my life. It was pretty brutal out there.

Oona Chaplin

Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

Boris Johnson

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Timing is everything. We can go back to it next year once we get past what?s going to be a brutal budget fight.

Terry Crews

What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.

We still have a very tough district. It's not as brutal as it would be if they were here, but it's still very good.

Carrie Preston

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

We've played a brutal schedule and we've played seven of nine games on the road, so getting some home games will be nice.

Alan Furst

Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.

Al Sharpton

The real loser is Rudy Giuliani, ... We proved how out of touch he is with the voters of New York. The issues of unemployment, police brutality and the schools not working are on the front burner. You can run, Rudy, but you can't hide.

Ben Parr

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Mark Knowles

When you play those away matches, some of the crowds are pretty tough: they can get brutal on you. College allows you to play a lot of matches with something on the line.

This summer's energy shock will cascade through the economy. A brutal winter heating season can't be ruled out. Detroit is losing steam,

Arthur Smith

This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of 'us versus Gordon' right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.

Ruth Rendell

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

Richard J. Needham

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Alfred North Whitehead

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Quentin Tarantino

I wasn't familiar with him, and I thought the scene was too brutal for the song. So what do I know?

We had a lot of intensity. The thing I liked about it was the conditions were brutal and we played through it.

William Butler Yeats

We had fed the heart on fantasies,The heart's grown brutal from the fare.

Steve Sampson

We're used to the low 60s by now, ... This is brutal and this course doesn't have any shade either.

Chris Mooney

We haven't a won a game in this brutal month. It's been very difficult for us. You have to try to steal a win here or there, and we haven't done that.

Police brutality is only effective when it is not caught on tape.

No. 1, the crime would not have occurred. And the brutality would not have been (as bad) as it was. This was a hate crime because she was a transgender woman.

Ramsey Clark

Nearly two months after the brutal execution of one of their members and the summary execution of a second lawyer, and all this time these men and their families have been left essentially unprotected.

Philipp Meyer

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.

One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.

Hasso Plattner

I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

I see General Motors at 18 percent, and Ford at 13 percent in about ten years from now. We are headed into a brutally competitive marketplace now.

The crime he did was just brutal and horrible and wicked and all those things. Plus, he had three prior felonies.