Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Wentworth Miller

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.

William McDonough

If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.

William Harvey

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Manchester

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

Vincent Cassel

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

Val Kilmer

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Chris Robinson

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Nathaniel Branden

Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Frances McDormand

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Frances McDormand

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Chad Michael Murray

I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

Ian Shepherdson

The pattern in claims in recent months is strikingly similar to 1990 -- a long slow climb and then a sudden acceleration as layoffs accelerated,

David Walton

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

Errol Morris

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

Tom Aldrich

We disagree with the interpretation by the state of Montana and don't think that penalty was deserved at all. Even so it would be subject to the same claims procedure as any other claims.

Alan Huffman

The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

Chris Neal

We still have folks working Katrina claims in Florida, as well as claims open from last season. If it hits, we'll be in pretty good shape to handle it.

Kyle Dippery

We have a mechanism in place to do what a union claims it can do for us.

Anthony Chan

We can't ignore the trend -- jobless claims have been coming down. We're at least close to turning the corner on the labor market front.

Bob Gates

We'll probably be seeing hail claims from this storm well into the end of May and into June.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Buddy Rich

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Sevyn Streeter

I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.

Timur Bekmambetov

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

Devon Aoki

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

Nikki Sixx

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Pervez Musharraf

We are not deterred. These kinds of things were expected,

Paul Downs Colaizzo

I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

Juicy J

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.

Terry Jones

Those kinds of things I think will stay and get more sophisticated. I think it's going to be very tailored for the customer.

Al Gillen

Those kinds of things are incremental improvements that really were pretty important.

Michael Jones

We have all kinds of space. There's still plenty of land here and plenty of room for us to expand.

Matt Hasselbeck

We haven't been parading around town doing all kinds of things. We're here for one thing and that's to play football. We're not here to do all this other stuff.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

J. Taylor

We have a major problem with being lied to.

Hunter Tylo

There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great.

P. J. Harvey

You lied to me in your deposition didn't you Mr. Buckingham?

Jack Nicholson

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

George R. R. Martin

Jon lied ... loudly, as if that could make it true.

Rob Spencer

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded.

Patrick Fitzgerald

He lied about it afterward, under oath and repeatedly,

Benjamin Crump

Obviously they lied to medical personnel that could have saved Martin's life.

William Bastone

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

Donna Thompson

The quality of the wines is excellent, and many individuals have won medals for the wines produced from kits.

Peter Judge

Sports that haven't been producing medals before are producing medals now.

Benjamin Agosto

We weren't even sure we were going to be here but to have the medals around our necks is just amazing.

Connie Thomason

It provides money for shirts, medals and ribbons.

Benjamin Raich

It's unbelievable for me to win two medals here.

David Mitchell

They're a lot better in the Summer Olympics. They've won 284 medals in the Summer Olympics.

Matt Savoie

I didn't set out to prove I could win national medals from Peoria, Illinois. But that's where I live, and everything I need is there.

Ante Kostelic

Probably when I quit skiing, I will think about it more. Right now, I'm just concentrated on my skiing. It's not about how many medals I won or will win. I'm just having fun.

Kelly Vanderbeek

It would be nice to have two medals between us.

Zedd

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

Tom Connelly

What he had in mind was something in the government, but he never mentioned FEMA.

Will Adams

If you mention 'amnesty,' you tend to get much different numbers.

John Updike

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

Don Thompson

We want students to know what they are getting into, ... The recruiters mention travel, but they don't mention the Middle East.

Mamata Banerjee

We have talked about the infiltration problem but not mentioned any community.

David Hemmings

I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the 'A-Team,' 'Magnum PI' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it.

Roland Hedgpeth

Every time I talk to people they mention the 2004-05 season.

Mark Williams

We will mention Troy, particularly at the end of the game,

Norman Foster

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

Shonda Schilling

When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation.

Neil Marshall

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Randy Cunneyworth

We have nowhere to go but up at this point.

Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Russell Robinson

We have to refocus. There's nowhere to go but up.

Guy Costa

The Phipps wants us out now, ... I have nowhere to go.

David Gest

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Khaled Mashaal

They proposed this. Our reply was clear. We told them that we already have had two recent experiences regarding the truce that were not encouraging.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Anne Campbell

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Evgeny Morozov

We can now with Google Glasses record everything around us, and we can make sure that nothing is ever forgotten because everything is stored somewhere in Google servers or somewhere else.

Carly Simon

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Tony Benn

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Tim Curry

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Bob Newhart

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

David Gilmour

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Alvin Lee

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

William Shakespeare

Discretion is the better part of valor.

George Herbert

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fealty with love, Valor with honor, oathbreaking with vengeance.

Veronica Roth

Ser sincero en todo momento debe requerir valor. Yo no sabría hacerlo.

Donald Rumsfeld

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Brad Pitt

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Solomon Short

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Bernard Law Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

Victoria Justice

I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

Wole Soyinka

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

F. Sionil Jose

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Errol Morris

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

Ferran Adria

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Russell Smith

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.