Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.

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.