Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

August Strindberg

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

Dennis Miller

South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!

Hailee Steinfeld

When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

Tina Fey

I like to delude myself that I'm in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can't do it.

Tori Kelly

My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I always want to be comfortable in my clothes and feel like myself, but I like to usually throw in some edge in there somewhere, even just with a leather jacket. But overall, always gotta keep it classy!

Cameron Russell

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

Katia Winter

I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

Felton McClellan

We did not expect it to be catastrophic. I expected to come back to a mess, maybe our furniture and clothes would be all wet, then we thought maybe the worst was that the house would be gutted.

Gary Vest

Obviously, most people who filled out the surveys don't know what we do. The law defines the kind of projects we do.

Rich Rodriguez

I don't think any one game defines a season. I don't like to put all those eggs in one basket. Never have. Don't see as I ever will.

Jeff Siegel

The question is who defines 'regularly' and what does it mean?

Omar Ahmad

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

Vince Staples

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

Douglas Alexander

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

David Christensen

He redefines pain such that not even a newborn could experience pain in the way he defines it, and then concludes that fetuses can't experience pain and that's absurd.

Steve Mitchell

I think this is probably the most important project this town is going to do in the next two years. It defines what the town will be.

Dick Cheatham

He who defines duty for himself is his own master.

Dennis Hopper

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

Dennis Lehane

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Thomas Gibson

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.

Mike Wallace

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

John Carter

Looters are still hanging about. There are people still living in the tunnels.

Eddie Campbell

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Eric Bristow

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

Cameron Diaz

Grease is the only cure for a hangover.

Alan Garner

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Arthur Koestler

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Bertrand Russell

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Busy Philipps

Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Ashley Montagu

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Carl Jung

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Alain de Botton

Not everyone is worth listening to.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Jane Asher

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Celine Dion

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

David Viscott

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Walliams

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

David Horowitz

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

David Icke

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

David Hockney

I love California; everything is so artificial.

David Hockney

Faces are the most interesting things we see

David Hume

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

David Duchovny

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

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.

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Bebe Moore Campbell

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Baroness Orczy

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Derek Bailey

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Derek Bailey

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Michael K. Williams

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

David Hockney

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Bill Hicks

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

Jane Austen

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Art Spiegelman

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

Benjamin Disraeli

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Bruce Boxleitner

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

Diane von Furstenberg

Personal style is accepting who you are.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Manolo Blahnik

I like women with style to wear my shoes.

Johnny Weir

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

Scott Peterson

She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly.

Nick Woodman

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty.

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Laura Marano

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

Coco Chanel

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Rita Ora

Nothing comfortable is worth wearing to the Met Ball.