Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brooke Shields

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Laura Riding

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Noah Baumbach

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

Nastassja Kinski

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

Ellen Greene

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

Andrea Barrett

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

Steve Whitmire

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.

Christopher Lee

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

We landed on ice. It was closest thing to feeling like you were on another planet.

The parish president made the decision that he wouldn't risk the lives of the pump station operators, and we evacuated those people to the shelter closest to us, ... You want to know who's responsible for the flooding? Katrina's responsible.

There are seven teams in the tournament that could win it. It's the closest I've seen since I've been in the conference.

Cherie Blair

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

Anton Corbijn

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds

Dwane Casey

We need his offense. For us, he's the closest thing to that third scorer we need. He's the quickest guy we have.

We're closest to the ground. We're the people who actually have hands-on experience with Ford workers.

Chris Martin

We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.

Unfortunately, the national conference only takes the top two teams and no one placed in the top five. Our closest winner was Dominique Rivers who finished 20th in Fundamental Word Processing.

Well, look around and find the closest trash can and throw it in there and start over.

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

Prince Charles

We shall not forget you, and we shall watch with the closest interest as you embark on this new era of your remarkable history.

Gioconda Belli

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

The reality is that most of Microsoft's partners are also its closest competitors, but that's nothing new,

Kris Kristofferson

The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Marie Osmond

I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.

We're getting fantastic response on our Web site, e-mails from all over the U.S. in places that definitely don't have curling clubs. We have piles of them that are actually looking for the closest curling club because they're so intrigued by watching everything.

What has kept it current all these years is that it's so true to family relationships and the way we hurt the people who are closest to us.

Aaron Paul

I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.

BD Wong

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

Shaun Alexander

That might help us. The Steelers have played great on the road in the playoffs, but this might be the closest they've had to a home game with all of the support here in Detroit.

That's a lot to put on one person. I was home this year, and I was here a lot to help. I'm interested in Seattle, and I told Mike that. He's one of my closest friends, and I love the Northwest. So it's not an easy decision to make.

The FF Plus is convinced that the voter day on March 1 is an ideal opportunity to also hold a referendum on those issues that are closest to the heart of Pretoria residents.