Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ranbir Kapoor

I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

Djimon Hounsou

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

Douglas Conant

All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

Anthony Bourdain

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Lyor Cohen

Everything gets thrown off depending on whether the Packers are playing. I grew up in L.A., and we had a terrible quarterback, Roman Gabriel. When I was 11 years old, I fired him, I fired the Rams, and I picked a quarterback I aspired to be. That was Bart Starr. That's how long I've been a Packers fan.

Najib Razak

As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.

Michael Craig

To me they are all good guys. I don't look at them as role models because I aspire to be one of them, and I will soon.

Philip Hammond

Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Nick Park

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Carolyn Kizer

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

Megan Knode

We discovered we shared the love of cooking. It was actually in second grade, and we said when we grew up we should start a restaurant.

Toni Harris

We discovered we have a quarterback who can run,

Mike Bender

We discovered these people are for real and very important,

Pam Compton

We discovered there was a gap. We started working with employers on how they could comply, and as a result, collections just skyrocketed.

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

Paul Kern

We discovered serious misconduct and a loss of moral values,

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Carl Gustav Jung

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong

David Zayas

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

Chris Ware

The first thing I do when I get up is I look out the window. I've been looking at the same image for six years. It's imprinted in my mind like an afterimage template.

Cilla Black

I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

Dev Hynes

I don't want to say I hate remixes, because I don't, but I hate what instantly comes to mind now when people say 'remixes.'

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Conrad Burns

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

Theo James

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

Stephen Covey

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

Mahavira

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Ron Polk

We had nearly as many hits, but they put them together. That's what it's all about. We just spaced ours out.

Andy Duncan

We had nearly 100%of people saying they were proud to work at C4 and more than 95% said we were going in the right direction. It's staggering,

Gerard Mestrallet

We had already made a lot of progress on the project. It was nearly finished.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Kristen Holloway

My nights and weekends are nearly all spent on the troops.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Rick Riordan

My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Evangeline Lilly

I've not worked with Martin Freeman. I've hung out with him, but I've not worked with him.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

David Crystal

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Catherine Hardwicke

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Steven Blum

You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

H. Jon Benjamin

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.