Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

William Shatner

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Warren Bennis

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Werner Herzog

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

William Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

William Lashner

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

Raini Rodriguez

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

Mick Jagger

Network television, they are always worried about how many times you are going to say f--- on the air. We had a bit of a crisis this morning when they heard Aretha Franklin was going to strip during 'The Star-Spangled Banner.

Ben Sopranzetti

We're a party band. We do mostly covers we play anything from Aretha Franklin to Jackson Brown to Pink.

Jess Glynne

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

Kelly Rowland

You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and been able to let us through,

Chet Faker

I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.

Natalie Cole

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

Patterson Hood

It in no way denies the horrible things that happened in the South during the civil rights struggle, ... The KKK and church bombings - all of those things did happen, but at the same time there were people like my father making Aretha Franklin records, these southern white boys who made their living playing on some of the best soul records ever made.

George H. W. Bush

Generations of Americans have stood in wonder at the style and voice of Aretha Franklin,

Lynda Resnick

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

Anne White

That was going to be our Franklin Street.

Bob Hofman

We couldn't put them away. Wayne Franklin had a great second half. I thought we did a real good job defensively in the first half on him, but their scheme in the second half did a great job of getting him more touches.

Sally Sondesky

Franklin used to come out and visit Joseph Galloway. Joseph was a Tory; Franklin was for the independents.

Gene Stamm

Franklin has to be No. 1. There is no issue that is greater. Something has to be done and I'd like to see this move forward.

Ann Nelson

As a woman, I just don't think it's safe for me to walk Franklin Street alone.

Clay Hobbs

The Mercy Regional paramedics were transported via ambulance to Franklin Hospital, then later released.

Matthew Stewart

Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.

Jean Craighead George

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Eric Andre

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Damien Chazelle

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Sevyn Streeter

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Sarah Hall

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Pierce Brosnan

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

Pierce Brosnan

Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.

Andy Roddick

We all pick each other up. I've picked up James before and today he picked me up. That's' why it's called a team.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Lamont Dozier

You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Zac Efron

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

William Shatner

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

Will Chase

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

Ville Valo

I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

Billy Graham

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Billy Graham

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Chet Faker

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.

Chet Faker

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Abraham Lincoln

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Henry Morton Stanley

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

Larry Foote

We're loving it. This is what it's all about. We're out here trying to win a championship.

Alan Watts

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

William Shakespeare

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

Derek Fisher

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Dee Wallace

The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for.

Deborah King

The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

Arthur C. Clarke

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

Lawrence Tierney

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

Anatoly Karpov

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

George Bald

We need to understand how freight moves and what is involved.

Phil Garner

We'll make the moves we always make. We'll pinch-hit, we'll double-switch, we'll defensively make moves.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

Tina Brown

The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.

Brian Kilrea

A lot of moves are made and you wonder who did it,

Vernon Davis

You've got a tight end who can make moves like a wide receiver. When there's a linebacker on you, that's kind of a mismatch. That pretty much speaks for itself.

Lisa Dey

When something like that happens, you've got to make the right moves and do the right things, and we did.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.