Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brenda Russell

I go through cycles with my writing. I have cycles where I'm up all night and lose track of time, and then I go for months without a thing to write about. My song 'So Good, So Right' came to me while I was washing dishes after a dinner party.

Brandon Jennings

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins that used to let me hang with them, so I got my toughness from them.

Bradley James

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

Brian Cox

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.

Becky G

I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

Bikram Choudhury

I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.

David S. Goyer

'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.

David Friedman

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

Demetri Martin

Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

Jon Meacham

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

Denis Johnson

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

Denis Napthine

Today, in 2014, Victoria is a better, stronger, more financially secure state than when we came to government four years ago.

Dennis Crowley

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

Victoria Justice

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

Clint Eastwood

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Nancy Grace

When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

NeNe Leakes

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

Neil Strauss

To me, I think it's awesome to meet your heroes and find out who they are and where they came from and what made them choose to communicate in the form that connected with you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

Ringo Starr

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

Niall Horan

I had a girlfriend when I was about 13 but we didn't stay together for very long and I've not really been out with many people since. I've still never had a serious girlfriend but I would happily go out with someone if the right girl came along.

Nile Rodgers

I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.

Niecy Nash

My house is full of antics, mayhem, foolishness, carrying on, cutting up, shucking and jiving, and I have that whether cameras are there or not. Our youngest just had us up with her shenanigans and hijinks all night. So, it's all the time, even off camera.

Nicolas Roeg

I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!

Gore Vidal

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

Famke Janssen

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Brad Thor

After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.

Bobby Seale

When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.

Eudora Welty

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Emma McLaughlin

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.