Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Seagal

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

Nicola Griffith

I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.

Bill James

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

Brenda Blethyn

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

Brian Baumgartner

For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do more stuff in that. But ultimately, what I consider myself to be is an actor, and the more variety I can play will continue to round me out.

Campbell Scott

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

Bill Self

We still don't have a guy we consider to be a go-to guy, and that's going to make it tough. We've got to be a team that's balanced, but it sure would be nice if we knew who to try to get stuff for from a daily standpoint, as opposed to maybe who has a hot hand that particular moment.

Barbara Walters

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

Dave Barry

Today, of course, it is considered very poor taste to use the F-word except in major motion pictures.

Orhan Pamuk

I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.

George Cukor

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

Tracy Morgan

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when you can understand someone, when you can love them with their flaws and their faults. So I understand, I consider. I may speak the truth, but I'll consider your feelings, too.

Walter Kirn

I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.

Wynter Gordon

I always considered myself a performer. It's what God gave me. It doesn't matter if one person hears it or a million.

Aaron Patzer

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

Aasif Mandvi

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

When (the Political Reform Act) was originally written, a lot more people didn't necessarily consider politics as a full-time position.

Willa Ford

We want to be sure that our investment managers understand our stance on this important issue as they consider their own investment strategies.

Lisa Kristine

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.

Jeanne Phillips

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just.

Theodor Reik

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

When the time is right, we may consider it.

Andre Maurois

When yyou become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanized

Ciara

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

Christy Romano

Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.

Crispin Glover

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

Crispin Glover

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

Damien Chazelle

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.

Patch Adams

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

Adam Morrison

Yeah. If you look at what we've done the last seven or eight years...I think our program's got to be considered one of the top in the country, you know, top 15 or top 10.

William Scranton

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.