Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustavo Santaolalla

It's always nice when your work is recognized.

Greg Bear

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,

Graydon Carter

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Gordon Lightfoot

I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

John Dryden

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

John McAfee

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

John Madden

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

John Lydon

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

John Lydon

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

John Lydon

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'

John Lydon

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

John Legend

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

John Lennon

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

John Lennon

You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it.

John Landis

Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it.

John Banville

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

Jodie Marsh

When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.

Justin Timberlake

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

Julie Christie

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

Julie Bowen

I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.

Julie Bowen

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

Julie Delpy

I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.

Judith Martin

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

Joseph Hall

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Katherine Dunn

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Karen Allen

The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

Katharine McPhee

You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.

Katharine Whitehorn

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.

Katharine Hepburn

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Kate Hudson

I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

Justin Theroux

There was a moment, late into the season, where I was noticing I was darkening a little bit at night. I was like, 'It will be nice when the show is over for the season. I need a vacation.'

Josh McDermitt

I can't imagine being on one of those shows where people have to look nice.