Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Alain Robert

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

Alan Alda

A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Chris Blackwell

Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.

Chris Bohjalian

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.

Childe Hassam

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

Chinua Achebe

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

Charlaine Harris

Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

Mike Stringer

We're in a hazardous occupation, so safety's our first concern. We're taking sleeping bags and stuff. So if it's hotels, great. It could be tents.

William Shakespeare

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Michael Franti

I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious.

Chris McGinnis

Until the airlines are able to guarantee the bags are going to be at baggage claim within a certain period of time, the tendency is going to be to carry on.

Cat Cora

Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

Ashley Madekwe

A colorful Chanel bag is a way to mix up anything.

Tim Sullivan

We're going to send her ... a couple of bottles of Seaside Festival wine so she can celebrate the birth of her child.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

Charles Simic

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Cary Grant

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Austin O'Malley

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,

Jan Morris

The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming. If a case was thought too heavy for me, inexplicably I found it so myself.

Laura Wasser

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

Jane Austen

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.