Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitfield Diffie

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Vicky McClure

If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

Ruth Reichl

If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegranate seeds and huitlacoche.

Manoj Bhargava

If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.

Victoria Beckham

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

Charles Darwin

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Roland Barthes

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Edward Hopper

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Burt Lancaster

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

F. Murray Abraham

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

Walter Kirn

I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

Rani Mukerji

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

Natalie Gulbis

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

Tony Gilroy

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Veerappa Moily

I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

Ulrich Beck

I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.

Steven Moffat

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

Shirin Ebadi

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

Thomas Haden Church

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Fritz Sauckel

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

Abraham Verghese

I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

Kelly Clarkson

I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don't get long nails. They're so Edward Scissorhands.

Tamara Mellon

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

Rick Pitino

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Kevin Kline

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

Frank Langella

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Gary Larson

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

Peter Jackson

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

Sophie Marceau

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too

Bonnie Blair

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Katy Perry

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.

Odette Annable

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

David Ortiz

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

Alan King

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Megan Fox

I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that's a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever.

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Gil Kane

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

Gore Verbinski

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

Gary Shteyngart

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

Diablo Cody

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

Jeff Buckley

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

Cindy Crawford

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

Ryan Sheckler

I just want to keep things going. I just love testing myself.

Taye Diggs

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

Adrienne Rich

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Terry Gilliam

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.