Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

Bobbi Brown

Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.

David Walton

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

David Walton

I am not a man in decent shape.

David Remnick

Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Wole Soyinka

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Nick Lachey

We're planning on being married for a long, long time.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Brad Paisley

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Bobby Seale

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Charles Saatchi

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

Cheryl Cole

I don't think I'm a style icon, not at all. Sometimes I just want to rock out in me scruffs and me Uggs. You know, a really comfy old tracksuit with maybe a dollop of ketchup down the front.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Chris Martin

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Caroline Goodall

The influence of Steven Spielberg to my career is unquantifiable. Every day on the set with him is a master class in filmmaking.

It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Ira Glass

I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

Shirley MacLaine

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

S. T. Joshi

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.