Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Edith Wharton

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Eddie Money

I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

Eddie Huang

For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.

Eddie Huang

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

Eddie Martinez

You're not as good as you think you are.

Eddie Marsan

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

Eddie Marsan

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

Eddie Murphy

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for background music, I don't just sit down and concentrate on it. Lyrics, words - that's what makes me think.

Eddie Murphy

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

Eddie Murphy

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

Eddie Murphy

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

Eddie Murphy

When I'm doing stand-up, it's just me depending on me. I know how to go out there and make people laugh. I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I trust my instincts. I just go out and talk. A lot of the time I let the material come from the top of my head.

Eddie Murphy

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived. And I think it's because he had such presence. When Elvis walked into a room, Elvis Presley was in the f***ing room. I don't give a f*** who was in the room with him, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass.

Eddie Izzard

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

Eddie Izzard

Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?

Eddie Izzard

All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.

Eddie Izzard

You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!

Eddie Izzard

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Eddie Izzard

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

Eddie Izzard

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

Eddie Izzard

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

Eddie Izzard

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

Eddie Izzard

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

Eddie Izzard

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

Eddie Izzard

I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

Ed Balls

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

Ed Balls

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

Ed Asner

I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going into journalism?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'I wouldn't.' I said, 'Well, why not?' He said, 'You can't make a living.'

Ed Belfour

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.