Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Ziskin

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

Norman Wisdom

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

We've always had a more pragmatic view of our business. You can describe our mission in two words: technology transfer.

When we were making that run at the end, you could feel it. You can't really describe it, but you know there's so many people who want your season to keep going. It's an inspiration. You want to play for yourself, but you want to play for them, too.

We failed in the handling of this call. I can't describe it in any other way.

Bobby Flay

When I was a kid, the first thing we would be able to point to was the slice we wanted. Describe to me that slice. What's the slice that we want?

Justin Timberlake

'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the first straightforward male I've been able to play. I would describe my character in 'The Social Network' as a kind of sociopath. I would describe my character in 'Bad Teacher' as... just a weirdo. But this is a male's male.

Ugo Betti

Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Elle King

I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.

David Liss

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

She has handled some of the most sophisticated matters that we've prosecuted. I would describe her as incredibly hardworking; fair but tough.

Since he died, there has been this thing going on in my head, the idea that there is a hole in the heart of the universe. It is easy to say that he was loved by all, but it really doesn't describe him adequately.

Jeffrey Skilling

She is helpful in trying to help me describe to people what I am trying to say.

Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to be a part of this team in a moment like this: There are really no words to describe it, just seeing how much fun they had and how much they enjoyed being out there tonight.

Seamus Mallon

Let me describe it as a momentous meeting. It was a good, workman-like meeting.

Chuck Klosterman

I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

Pamela Stephenson

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.

Nikki Reed

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Errol Morris

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

Eddie Guerrero

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

Mary Shelley

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Neill Blomkamp

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

I tell people: 'Do what you love, but it can also be hard to know what you love early on. But when you think about it and you describe the options, which one gets you a little more excited?'

Andrew Vachss

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

Anna Kendrick

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

Connie Sellecca

Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.

We are looking for a way to describe it that is not phony and doesn't frighten people.

Walther Bothe

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

Steve Wilkos

It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

Kurt Vonnegut

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.

When a president is popular, there's a tendency to describe events describing his popularity. When the numbers are falling, you use that as a lens to explain why his popularity is diminishing.

Bernard Berrian

Rex has an intangible kind of thing. You can't really describe it. But it's there.

Revenge is sweet. There's no way to describe it -- it's awesome.