Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Milligan

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

Spike Lee

I'm always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I'm able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren't flexible I sure wouldn't be making films this many years as I've been doing it. I've been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that's hard. That ain't easy.

Simon Cowell

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

Simon Cowell

I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

Simon Cowell

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?

Simon Cowell

You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.

Sigmund Freud

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

Shirley Franklin

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

Shepard Smith

I like to cover news when it happens, not five years later.

Shawn Achor

Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.

Shawn Johnson

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

Sergio Garcia

In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.

Sergio Garcia

The Spanish press started calling me ‘El Nino' when I was very small. Now, I have grown a little. The problem is, when I'm 30 years old, we'll have to come up with another one.

Serj Tankian

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

Scotty McCreery

I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.

Scott Weiland

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

Rick Riordan

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.” “Yeah,” I said. “And now they’re gone.

Richard Briers

I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Rene Auberjonois

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

Rem Koolhaas

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

Rem Koolhaas

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Richard Branson

We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

Richard Branson

I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

Richard Branson

The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go.

Tina Yothers

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

Tippi Hedren

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

Timothy Olyphant

It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.

Tim Holden

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

Tim Gunn

I haven't had a date in 26 years.

Thorsten Heins

History repeats itself again I guess the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.