Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felicity Kendal

I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Frank Marshall

When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it because that's just what I need, to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.

Evel Knievel

I learned one thing from jumping motorcycles that was of great value on the golf course, the putting green especially: Whatever you do, don't come up short.

Ethel Waters

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

Eric Roberts

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.

We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Christian McKay

I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

Lawrence Timmons

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

Luke Wilson

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

What you see with Tony is what you get. He doesn't just talk it and not do it. He talks it and does it. He's a great man. High moral character. High value system and he instills that in his team and the people that work with him.

Ira Glass

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Ira Glass

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'

Imelda May

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

Nate Lowman

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

Natalie Cole

I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game.

Nick Price

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Nick Hanauer

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

Lady Gaga

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

Laurie R. King

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.

Larry Smith

Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.

Ronald Koeman

We did something people did not expect. It was a great job.

We did some great things. We always feel like this is a great prep for the state tournament and the second half of our season.

We didn't quit, but my hat's off to them because they're a great team.

We are having more and more students enroll, and it would be great to keep on getting more.

We didn't do a great job of putting.

We didn't do a great job of guarding him.

Leon Bridges

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

Leon Bridges

I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.

Laurence D. Fink

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?