Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emma Thomas

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

Ellar Coltrane

I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

Elizabeth Emken

When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

Elizabeth Holmes

No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

Ellen McLaughlin

I'm very comfortable in the air. And if you're really in love with flight, you're in love to a certain extent with being outside of the body, not grounded. The problem is, if you're not in your body, you can't actually feel anything particularly authentically.

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

Ernie Harwell

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

Callie Khouri

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

Christiane Amanpour

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

John Cassavetes

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

Joshua Foer

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

Lorrie Moore

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Karan Johar

'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

Katharine Weymouth

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

Kathy Baker

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

Jimmy Cliff

I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know.

Laura Wasser

Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.

We want the clientele to have a certain type of experience. It's one of a VIP experience.

We did not honor certain critical possessions down the stretch like we should have, and it proved detrimental.

We did not have a good day. We certainly hope to do better. We've thought a lot about what we did last time and what we need to do this time.

We did make an offer. It's a joke. I think it's sort of funny. ... He certainly isn't the first player that rejected one of our offers, and I know that he won't be the last. That's his prerogative. That's part of the business. That's free agency. We wish him the best.

Jim Jarmusch

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Johnny McDaid

I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

Janina Gavankar

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

Loretta Napoleoni

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

There are a lot of anachronisms in Washington, but the need to periodically raise the debt limit by Congressional vote is certainly one of them.

There is definitely an increasing level of tensions down here and the harpooners are certainly starting to take shots that perhaps a week or two weeks ago they would not have taken.

Dennis Haysbert

There is definitely a certain cadence to David's work. You'll see his fingerprints all over the scripts. It really makes for entertaining dialogue. They were really fun to say.

Dennis Haysbert

There is definitely a certain cadence to David's work. And as you see more of the episodes, you'll see that his fingerprints are all over scripts and it really makes for entertaining dialogue, and they were awfully fun to say.

There is certainly talk of getting another extension.

Robert Thompson

There is certainly some award-show fatigue. I lost count a few years ago of all of them.

There is certainly nothing in this report to suggest any serious slowing, or any slowing at all, in the economy is near.