Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Virginia Postrel

The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a forgettable green plastic box.

Vikram Seth

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

Yani Tseng

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

Yehuda Berg

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

Chita Rivera

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

Brunello Cucinelli

I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!

Natalie Massenet

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

Jason Childs

We'd just finished dinner and heard two loud explosions, ... Didn't really want to think it was a bomb.

Kaskade

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

Ernie Whitt

We had a nice dinner and a few ... ginger-ales.

Jason Schwartzman

Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

Natalie Martinez

'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

Tim Cahill

We're like that anyway. You should hear our dinner conversations. It's a laugh riot.

Lisa Brinker

We serve dinner to folks and they get to eat and be entertained at the same time.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Constance Marie

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Ira Glass

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

Paul Sereno

The hand is amazing. It was probably ideal for fishing, for grabbing ... into those large fish.

Jenny Gardner

When you are looking at snacks throughout the day, look at what's going on. Are you going to be running errands all day? If so, pack snacks at home so you're not grabbing something out of a vending machine.

B. R. Hayden

It is about grabbing what you see on the Web, organizing it, and sharing with it with somebody.

Cam Neely

I think the hooking and the holding and the clutching and the grabbing is the main thing that they had to get rid of.

Todd March

I was so used to grabbing the hose, running in with the guys.

Craig Barr

They were grabbing and holding Jones' jersey all night long, but then we got the offensive (penalty) call. We had a touchdown taken away from us last week at McCutcheon.

Chris Edwards

I don't know if you can have a perfect game. But it seemed liked they were getting open and grabbing onto everything I threw. The offensive line was great. I didn't get sacked.

Simon Hoggart

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Peter O'Toole

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

Timur Bekmambetov

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

Gerard Hoeppner

When a ride stops, it really means that our safety systems are working.

Lauren Oliver

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

Margaret D. Nadauld

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

Natalie Maines

I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.

Chuck D.

There is a voluntary word of mouth being spread,

Harry Crosby

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

William Shakespeare

"Lawyers Are": Perilous mouths.

Mark Billingham

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

Alan Rudolph

I'm me, I live from film to mouth.

Alan Watts

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Al Pacino

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

Buddy Ebsen

Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.

Nick Jonas

I love pizza; you cant really go wrong with pizza.

Alessio Vinci

Pizza with pineapple, that's a cake...Pizza with cucumber, it's an insult.

Miranda July

Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?

Ann Wilson

We're one of two stores that will be selling pizza by the pound.

R. Robinson

It's about like pizza dough, like licorice-flavored pizza dough.

Madhup Tiwari

When we questioned him about his whereabouts he was unable to give any satisfactory answer.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.

Doug Wilson

We are in the race, there's no question about that.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Jakob Nielsen

Users spend most of their time on other websites.

Alan Watts

What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

Al Sharpton

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Jonathan Moreland

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

Jonathan Anderson

You've got spending going on. Overcapacity is actually going to be going away.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Harry Lloyd

If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.

Denzel Washington

We're not sure yet who will play my father,

Laurie McKager

We're not sure why that wall had not been tested.

Jeff Carr

We're not sure if the two discoveries are related. However, we will look into that possibility.

Eric Erickson

We're not sure if he made a right-of-way violation or not,

Candice Olson

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

Stephen Wilson

We have very tight travel restrictions. It's not like we're going off to Hawaii.

David Morehouse

Time is tight in a two- to three-year span, not a two- to three-month span.

Tres Thomas

We wanted to keep it tight between the University and SMG until we got the go-ahead from the band.

Dennis Franchione

We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.

Jason London

Whenever you have a tight schedule, you sort of have to film whatever you can that day.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Jason Statham

Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.

Jane Siberry

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Chelsea Handler

We women have to stick together.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Jack Johnson

love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

Linda Evans

We haven't all been together for a really long time.

Bob McNair

We'll get together this week and get all that wrapped up.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are