Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Konitz

I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Thomas Perry

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

Angus Young

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

Beverly Cleary

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Jennifer Garner

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

Lauren Bacall

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Emmy Rossum

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Francisco Costa

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.

Steve Carell

I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Patty Duke

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Zadie Smith

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

Sherri Shepherd

I just don't believe in abortion, period. But I would never take away a woman's right to choose what's good for her body. But I still believe that when you do have an abortion, still inside, you go through a lot of stuff. It tears away at your spirit and your soul. So I don't think people think about that.

Tracey Gold

I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.

Patrick Wilson

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

David Sedaris

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

Stana Katic

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Scott Caan

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

Elle Macpherson

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

Lynn Coady

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Portia de Rossi

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

Rickie Fowler

I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf.

Vanessa Paradis

I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

Evangeline Lilly

I just like short hair on women; I think its cool.

Vince Flynn

I just look at what's going on in the world.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I just love doing movies that I would want to see in theaters.

Anna Sui

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

Adam Rapp

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

Elizabeth Olsen

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Geena Davis

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Patti LaBelle

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Debi Thomas

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Nicholas Lea

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

George A. Romero

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

Nicholson Baker

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

Erin Morgenstern

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

David Ginola

I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now.

Harvey Pekar

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the underlying structure that it's based on, the chord progression. That was pretty easy to do in the swing era, y'know, when jazz was, like, pop music, you know. It had made the charts and everything like that.

Gail Collins

I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.

Bill Ayers

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

Mary Ellen Mark

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.

Gene Tierney

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Dan Auerbach

I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.