Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Naifeh

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

Tamara Ecclestone

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

Stewart Butterfield

I learned so much in the year after Flickr was acquired. People forget, but Flickr launched in February 2004. And a year later, the deal was done with Yahoo, and we closed it in March of 2005. It was really independent for a relatively short period of time.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Jeffrey Hammond

We have linked this gastrointestinal outbreak to the Sprayground attraction, and it has been closed down for the year.

Dante Jimenez

We (are) not closed only to one, let?s say the organizers (of the show). We think many are responsible.

John Kinsey

When (the TSX) opens after being closed while the U.S. market was open, all the inter-listed stocks get adjusted.

Noah Feldman

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

Louis Freeh

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Anna Nicole Smith

I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you.

Norman Reedus

I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm like, 'Let's date for three years' - which is just ridiculous.

Big Sean

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date - she'll like that.

Bruce Jackson

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

Zach Braff

When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.

Mark Fields

We are not going to put a date on when Jaguar will return to profitability.

Noreena Hertz

Surely in a world of email, video conferencing and virtual assistants, isn't being expected to show up at the office extremely anachronistic? Yet to date it seems that where one works does matter. That creativity and innovation do feed off physical interactions between people.

Ira Glass

If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

Natalie Maines

My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

Edward Carpenter

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edmund White

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Caleb Cushing

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

Naomi Martin

We played well in the first half and then let up in the second half. We need to learn how to play an entire game. Early in the season we try to play the game well and limit our mistakes.

Micah Marsh

We played well in spurts, but our intensity wasn't what it should be. Next week, we can't have that or we're going to have an early exit.

Neil Cohen

The patients who have had the more serious events are very sick patients. I think the purpose of this letter is for oncologists to get more information to make treatment decisions.

Atharva Veda

The past is 'truth' because events have already happened and they can not be questioned.

Dallas Roberts

I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.

Mark Klein

We had a number of discussions today to work through. As we move forward we're going to work together to handle any future events around immigration reform.

Mark Stone

We had some kids gone and some hurt. We didn't fill out the meet in all the events the way we normally would like to.

James Rubin

We recognize there are a lot of events that are converging at this very moment, but we don't see them as linked and we don't see them as a crisis. We see them as hurdles that we obviously will need to overcome.

Ellie Acampora

We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.

Eric Howe

We were strong on floor, and I think that gave us some momentum going over to vault. Having those two events back to back was big.

John Parsons

Typically events like this would take four months, maybe six months,

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Daddy Yankee

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

Glenn Beck

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

Jason Bloom

We prepared well for Robert Morris and knew what we were going to face.

Tyrone Hayes

I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.

Bob Newhart

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

Adriana Lima

Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Boris Johnson

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

Charles Francis Richter

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.

Chad Hurley

Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Bruce Anderson

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Richard Daley

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Nas

Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Cynthia Ozick

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

Andy Williams

We played 90 minutes of hard-fought soccer, which we didn't do for one minute last week.

Nigel Newton

We have made a number of big purchases in the last six months. We're in a position to do so.

Jim Rogers

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

Kenichiro Sasae

We are not necessarily satisfied, ... working up to the last minute.

Wentworth Miller

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

Terri Mitchell

The overall plan was to play our zone because we have so much respect for the athleticism of St. John's that we really needed a containment mentality.

Cary Fukunaga

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.

Jay Allen

When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.

Phil Davis

We did what we needed to do. We still made some mistakes, but we were able to overcome them.

Kevin Reed

We did what we needed to do in the first half.

Royce Chadwick

We did the things we needed to win. We just didn't do enough of them.

Bonnie Tyler

When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.

Jake Goldy

We played well. Our problem has been defense. When we needed to get a stop tonight, we couldn't get a stop. That's been our story all year long.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Don Ho

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Doug Hawkins

We don't have pitchers to strike out 10, so we have to rely on our defense. They picked us up today.

Joe Condit

We haven't picked out any specific properties yet. This process is just beginning. It probably will take a year to sort out which ones we want to buy.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Nicole Vaidisova

In the second set, I picked it up very fast, just dictating play, so she didn't get any rhythm,

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Chuck Wagner

We have a lot of things planned for the evening,

Kathy McKiernan

This is a long planned transition and it will be a seamless one.

Robert Black

The only way we have been able to do this is because Texas has planned and has drilled for years.

Stacie Temple

We had not planned to grandstand on the issue. We simply planned to do the responsible thing with taxpayers' money.

Chris Soule

It hasn't been the planned season, but it is what it is.

Jeffrey Immelt

We've planned for tough this year and we weren't disappointed,

Mike Turner

We had planned on a slow ramp-up of the production of the airplanes.

Willie Williams

We do not know whether it was an opportunistic robbery, whether it was something that was planned or whether it was a follow-up, ... We just don't know right now.

Linda Blair

I had planned to retire when I was 13, ... I had wanted to be a veterinarian.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Bernard Davis

We pretty much know they're going to run the ball,

Ramon Serna

When a star falls, there is a run in the night's stocking.

Vivica A. Fox

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

Cate Blanchett

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

Leonard Lauder

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

Alan Cohen

Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

Joan Rivers

A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: 'Run your own race, put on your blinders.'

Mike Jones

When they are on their best, any running back can go in there and do their thing.