Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Selick

It's nice to be taken seriously.

Henry Rollins

In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

Helen Reddy

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Heather Graham

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

Heather Donahue

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Hayden Fry

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Hilarie Burton

My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.

Hideo Kojima

People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.

Hideo Kojima

It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

Henry James

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Helen Thomas

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Helena Bonham Carter

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

Helena Bonham Carter

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

Helena Bonham Carter

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

Helena Bonham Carter

It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it.

Helen Dunmore

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.

Johannes Brahms

Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

Kathy Reichs

I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.

Kevin Ayers

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Jonathan Nolan

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Naomie Harris

I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

Naomie Harris

I really enjoyed working with Daniel [Craig], because he's a brilliant actor at the top of his game. That gave me an opportunity to learn from the best, which is what you're always looking for as a performer in order to grow and get better at your craft. It was also great because he was so nice and incredibly supportive, because it really was an intimidating experience for me. He sort of held my hand and said, "We're in this together and we'll get through it together." And he did look after me.

Norman Wisdom

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

Norman Wisdom

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

Oscar de la Renta

I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.

Olympia Dukakis

Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

Oliver Sacks

If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Michael Buckley

Moth, that wasn't very nice.

Michael C. Hall

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Michael Buble

I think Elvis Presley is a crooner. Even people like Eddie Vedder, I hear him sing some things and I go "wow". Seal, that kind of nice voice, too.

Michael Buble

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

Michael Caine

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.