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.

Al Madrigal

My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house.

Akhmad Kadyrov

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

Adrian McKinty

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

Anna Deavere Smith

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Ansel Elgort

When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'

Bob Newhart

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Joe Biden

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Al Pacino

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

Muhammad Ali

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Kerry Wood

When I get this thing going and get healthy, it's going to be the way I expect to go out there and pitch. And I expect to stay healthy and be that way for the remainder of my career. ... I came back from the elbow and it's been great. I had the shoulder thing pop up and we're going to take care of that, get going and not look back.

Andre Agassi

When I got on top, ... I think the wheels came off quickly.

Brian White

When I got off work, I drove by and there was no one out here. So, I drove home and came back.