Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leona Helmsley

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

Karl Urban

Sometimes it's nice to know that what you've done has been appreciated.

Karl Pilkington

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

Karl Pilkington

Be the ugly one, look at the nice one.

Karen Finerman

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Karen Carpenter

Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

Juliette Lewis

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

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.

Jimmy Durante

Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.

Jim Parsons

I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the best things about partaking in a show like this is, when I show up to events and parties now, they know me. I don't have to hear, 'Oh, you're an actor? Have I seen you in anything?' anymore. I used to have to start listing things off of my resume'. It's really nice not to have to do that anymore.

Joan Sutherland

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

George MacDonald

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

Emily Kinney

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

Emily Procter

It's so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.

Elvis Presley

You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark.

Ellie Kendrick

It was fantastic returning to Being Human. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.

Ellie Kemper

One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

Ellen Hopkins

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

Ellen Hopkins

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

Elizabeth Goudge

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.