Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annabella Sciorra

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.

Annabelle Wallis

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

Annabelle Selldorf

All clients think that they are architects.

Annabelle Selldorf

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Clemence Poesy

I’m always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make-up and hair and sometimes I’m very aware that I’m not like that. But I don’t think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff.

Clemence Poesy

For me, it’s about not being too aware of what you look like because if you are, you’re trying too hard and I don’t think that actually makes you look good. I’ve known from very early on that I don’t look perfect.

Clemence Poesy

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Clemence Poesy

I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.

Clemence Poesy

There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.

Clay Shirky

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

Clay Shirky

Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

Clay Shirky

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

Clay Shirky

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Clay Shirky

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

Clay Shirky

It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.

Clay Aiken

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

Clay Aiken

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

Clay Aiken

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Clay Aiken

Because I'm from North Carolina, you think I'm the Andy Griffith show, or something?

Clayton Christensen

There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.

Clayton Christensen

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Clayton Christensen

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

Clayton Christensen

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

Clayton Christensen

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

Clayton Christensen

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Claire Danes

I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.

Claire Danes

I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.

Claire Danes

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Claire Danes

I'm human. I think people see me as sweeter and softer than I do.

Claire Danes

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

Claire Danes

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

Claire Danes

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

Daniel Keys Moran

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.