Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rock

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

Fran Lebowitz

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

George Wald

Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.

Nancy Werlin

You can be special without being extraordinary.

Miep Gies

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

Jose Mourinho

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

Jose Garces

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

Joe Torre

St. Louis has always been special to me.

Ellen DeGeneres

I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.

Eric S. Raymond

And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.

Ellen Page

Patricia [Rozema] is really special, and she really worked hard to make the environment and the landscapes' natural beauty come alive. She was not forceful with anything, but enabled it to really have this poetic nature.

John Krasinski

I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screeningsEverybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.

Northrop Frye

Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.

Mason Cooley

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

Mason Cooley

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Mandy Patinkin

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

Erich Segal

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

Eric Liu

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Shaun Cassidy

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is,

Sherilyn Fenn

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Neil Gaiman

You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

John Muir

So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.

John W. Gardner

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

John Templeton

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Martin Luther

Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.

Rajneesh

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Here. (Zarek) What is it? (Astrid) Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek) Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks. I’ve never had vomit before. I’m sure it’s extra special. (Astrid)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros) Oh, let’s see…how about we make my day special, and start with the worst, then work our way up? (Julian)

Terry McMillan

Now, I've been known to be attractive on special occasions, and I do my best to project as much beauty as I can muster from deep inside, though I often fail.

Kimora Lee Simmons

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself.

Michael Mandelbaum

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.