Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Gallagher

New York is my favorite city in the world.

Lewis Mumford

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

Le Corbusier

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Alan Turing

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

Charlie Cox

I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.

Charlie Chaplin

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

Charlie Chaplin

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Charles Stross

My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

Cheryl Cole

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

Sara Rue

Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever had a the pleasure to be around. She is so professional and always on time and has it together. It really is a joy to be around her.

Arthur Hiller

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

Fisher Stevens

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

Deb Smith

We had a nice pitching performance from Katie.

Paul Aznarez

We had a nice little run and kind of turned the tide a little bit. That's what you look for in your press.

Amy Ray

We did some planning with them. It was nice to get involved.

Don Meyers

We did some nice things to get back into the game.

Walter Benjamin

There's something nice about being able to go to sleep at night saying "You know, tomorrow I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that...." I think that being an activist on this planet is a privilege and a pleasure.

Ellen Key

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

Richard Lamm

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.

Frank Lampard

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

Virginia Postrel

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

Jeffrey Kluger

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

Alan Cohen

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

John Nersesian

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

Chris Adrian

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Rafe Spall

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.