Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Edith Wharton

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

Edith Wharton

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...

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

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 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

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

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 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 Belfour

I take it upon myself to get motivated. I know when I have a bad game. It's something I think about myself when it happens, and I don't need someone to tell me I didn't do this or didn't do that.

Ed Bradley

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Earl Wilson

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Eartha Kitt

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Daymond John

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

Daymond John

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're going to go and what doesn't work.

David Ulevitch

I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.

David Walton

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.

David Walliams

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.