Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walliams

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

David Heyman

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

David Icke

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

David Hume

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

David Hume

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

David Dreman

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

David Dunn

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

David Duchovny

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

David Brock

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

Condoleezza Rice

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Tim Walz

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Ivo Sanader

It is not true and I firmly reject it,

Brian Young

He was firmly opposed to oppression and he recognized God in everyone.

Cecily Strong

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

Jiang Zemin

We will firmly ... safeguard the Hong Kong residents' rights and freedoms in accordance with the law,

David Icke

The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

David Dinkins

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

David Brin

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

Benedict Cumberbatch

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Beatrix Potter

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

Audrey Hepburn

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Audrey Hepburn

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.

David Icke

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

David Hume

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

David Duchovny

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Beatrice Wood

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Tom Chiappetta

When you put that mix together, we got our own little world here.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.

Maria Alvarado

There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of taxes.

Gia Coppola

Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.

Paul Fernandez

She used to rely a lot on her power. Now she has a variety of pitches she can mix in.

Nathalie Dechy

She served very well and mixed her game. I had a lot of opportunities but simply couldnt take the lead,

Charles Prince

We are going to shift the mix strongly to international.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Mahmud Abbas

My convictions are important, as well as the work. If I can do something then I will continue, otherwise I won't.

Patricia Clarkson

She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Ken Starr

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Kate Bush

I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Thomas Mars

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.