Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomi Campbell

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

Kristen Stewart

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Kool Keith

Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex

Marcus Terentius Varro

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

Marc Benioff

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Kevin Mitnick

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Margaret Thatcher

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

Margaret Beckett

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Leonardo da Vinci

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

Paul Gauguin

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

Patrick Rothfuss

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there.

Patch Adams

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

Parminder Nagra

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Lester Holt

One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.

Larry Page

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

Pablo Picasso

What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

Irvine Welsh

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

Imogen Heap

The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.

Ina May Gaskin

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

Idina Menzel

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

J. Maarten Troost

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

J. Paul Getty

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

Natalia Vodianova

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

Kathryn Schulz

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Julian Assange

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

Kristen Bell

Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

Ravi Zacharias

Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

Rajneesh

The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

Raf Simons

I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

Shay Mitchell

Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.