Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!

Billy Joel

I'd start a revolution but I don't have timeI don't know why I'm still a nice guy.

I do think we feel pretty comfortable with a starting lineup at this point. The nice thing is that Shannon is versatile enough that you can put her at short, you can put her in the outfield.

George Foster

He's got a nice one, a real nice one. I like it. It's better than Ben's.

Hunter S. Thompson

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

Humphrey Carpenter

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Hulk Hogan

I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd - they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won't sit down.

Huey Long

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

Hassan Nasrallah

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Harold Prince

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

Harold Ramis

I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel uncomfortable with. At a certain point, it's no longer about what I thought was right, but it's about this new discovery that happens with the actors. It's nice when the actor is also a writer.

Harold Ramis

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to be able to write enough to get credit, which is difficult for a director.

James Cromwell

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

Jai Rodriguez

Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience.

Jaime Murray

Be nice to old people.

Jaime Murray

It's an under-represented demographic and it's a really loyal fan base and it's really nice to play those roles without making a big deal about it or making too much comment, because the more we normalise it the better. You're not defined by your sexuality but by what you do.

Jaimie Alexander

Green screen, you know, it's been interesting, it's my first time to ever work with green screen technology, and it's, sometimes it can be really boring because you're like wow, I've got to really imagine all of this stuff around me. But it's low maintenance, which is nice, um, and it's not as hard as I thought it would be, so.

Jacqueline Woodson

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

Jackie Evancho

I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

Jackie Chan

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

Jack White

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

Jack White

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

Jack White

There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.

J. William Fulbright

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If this nice friendliness would spread out in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

J. R. R. Tolkien

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.

Iwan Rheon

Um, well my main profession is acting and music is what I love doing. It's kind of nice like that in a way because it means I'm under no real pressure with the music. I have got complete creative control and I can make whatever I want. So, that takes a lot of the pressures off because there's no financial pressure. And it's something I've always loved doing.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

Isaac Hanson

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.