Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Joy Fowler

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.

Gottfried Leibniz

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Clyde Edgerton

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

Terry Zwigoff

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

Brooke Shields

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

Chelsea Clinton

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

Dick Gephardt

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Aerin Lauder

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

David Geffen

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Chen Guangbiao

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

Glenn Hughes

I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.

Giovanni Ribisi

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

Judd Nelson

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Cornelia Funke

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

Christopher Darden

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Ron Silver

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

Bill Kreutzmann

I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.

Terrell Owens

I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.

Colin Hay

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

Nick Vujicic

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Frances Farmer

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Akon

I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

Hayley Hasselhoff

I just like talking, and I'm really truthful. Sometimes things come out of my mouth, and I think, 'Maybe I shouldn't have said that,' but at the end of the day, I am who I am! When I'm not acting, I'm going to be fully Hayley Hasselhoff, and that's what you're going to get. And I enjoy that.

Tyler, The Creator

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

Jurnee Smollett

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

Diane Warren

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

Shane Warne

I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.

Teena Marie

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

Coolio

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

Glenn Danzig

I just told you I wasn't a Satanist

Henry Samueli

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

Dan Marino

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

Bruce Willis

I just try to go to work, and concentrate on coming home to my girls.

David Beckham

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

Sam Elliott

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

Bruce Oldfield

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

Julie Walters

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.

Nick Jonas

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

Anne Hathaway

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.

Scott Ian

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

Zach Galligan

I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

David Edwards

I knew BB King when he first started out.

Tyler Oakley

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Neale Donald Walsch

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

Cory Monteith

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

Lizzy Caplan

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

Dave Sim

I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

Clive Sinclair

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.