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.

William Kirby

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Ezra Taft Benson

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

Barbara W. Tuchman

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Bethany Mota

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

Bonnie Tyler

We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.

Red Adair

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.

Bruce Lipton

Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.

Bono

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

Corey Hart

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

Douglas Conant

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

Virginia Postrel

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.

Tom Paulin

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.

Clive Sinclair

McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

Pharrell Williams

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

Sebastian Horsley

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

Gene Luen Yang

'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.

Lykke Li

My favourite festival experience is a show at midnight with the moon blazing and a crowd full of open hearts ready to dance.

Vincent Van Gogh

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.

Tom Wolfe

In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.

Bob Empey

It creates more opportunities for girls to prove they can wrestle, whether it's with boys or other girls. That young lady is blazing a trail for wrestling in Wisconsin and for women's wrestling in the country.

Jake Brace

We are blazing our own trail in terms of what products and offerings we have.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

Ron Brownstein

So he's got an environment in which you don't really have a bonfire burning, a grassroots demand for tax cuts, ... He's going to have to go out and make that case because otherwise Democrats are going to be able to go out and say, 'Look, this will endanger programs that you care about.'

Pat Buckley

The bonfire gives alumni, current students, faculty, staff and members of the Hamilton community a chance to come together to celebrate Colgate,

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Hans Blix

The patience that they require for themselves now was not anything that they wanted to give to us,

Boris Yeltsin

The patience of the public and of the president is not limitless,

Alan Cohen

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

Otton Solis

We are going to wait with a lot of patience.

CeeLo Green

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare

Who can be patient in extremes?

William Shakespeare

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

William Shakespeare

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

William Shakespeare

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.