Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Werner Herzog

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Will Shetterly

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Will Sergeant

I guess some fans like art and get it, others are just into the music, don't really turn up and have an opinion. The fans that have shown interest are all with me all the way.

Will Champlin

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

Walead Beshty

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

Virginia Postrel

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

Elaine Stritch

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

David Byrne

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Jason Schultz

The patent system serves an important public purpose in our economy. Keeping illegitimate patents out of that system helps up-and-coming artists and entrepreneurs succeed for all of us.

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

Common

Oh man, I love what the South brings as far as the soul, and I really have noticed from even the early days of listening to OutKast and Goodie Mob that Atlanta and the South has a diverse sound to it. You have bounce music. You have soulful musicians. You have artists with vocals who try to do different things.

Brittany Howard

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

Brenda Russell

It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

Caroline M. Nichols Churchill

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.

Adrian Peterson

I've been through a lot of different situations, and the key thing I've learned is: Don't panic. That's the advice I give people. If anaphylaxis occurs, just do the necessary things. If it's your first time, call and seek emergency assistance and find out exactly what's happening. Get help.

Michael Widomski

We're leveling the assistance that's being put out there.

Charles Morrison

We're not getting any backing or assistance from them. We feel they're neglectful of their duties. We charge that they are not standing behind the Navajo Nation.

John Deane

We still have to figure out what kind of relocation assistance we will provide as a company. But we're excited about coming to Conroe and Montgomery County. It's a good place for our people to work and live.

Cheryl Linberg

We still have needy people here in Allen, Fairview and Lucas, and they still require assistance even though the holidays are over.

Jennifer Freeman

We are cooperating with the DA's office, providing our assistance where needed.

John Ashcroft

was providing the necessary assistance to help calm and resolve the situation.

Michael Brown

We recognize your immediate focus is to provide relief for the hurricane victims in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, but hope you will reconsider your denial of individual assistance for our communities.

Francesca da Rimini

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

Dennis Potter

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Francesca da Rimini

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

Richard Steele

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Richard Steele

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Jack Schwartz

Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.

Jack Schwartz

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

Francesca da Rimini

I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.

Jack Schwartz

When towns have sent out suicide bombers to fire incessantly and indiscriminately into Jewish communities, they become legitimate targets.

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.

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Gore Vidal

No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?

Pat Paulsen

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Chester Bowles

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Ernestine Rose

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Mike Hooper

When and if there is something to say in relation to the drug testing program we will do so.

Curtis Jackson

I'll have long, straight hair, like down to my back, when I go to Heaven. And I'm not even going to work out, but I'll be in shape. It's a whole new program up there.

Dick Cheney

It's a tougher program for tougher customers.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Bud Selig

We have the toughest program now in American sports, ... and I'm proud of that.

Mayor Lederer

Unfortunately, the program is a victim of its own success, and as result my description of it would be a program in crisis.

Dana Gioia

We wanted to make sure the program could work as broadly as possible, so we wanted to test it in more challenging markets.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Wale

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Khalil Shikaki

There is little to no public support for the old guard.

Mark DiCamillo

There is a vein of the public that is leery of big industry.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Kari Appler

We know the public is wildly enthusiastic about both.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Nicole Polizzi

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

David Dunn

We can always use more radios and more frequencies.

Al Lewis

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

David Walliams

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

Edward Klein

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

James King

We bucked the trend in radio research. We did what no else said could be done.

Bob Seger

Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Meg Wolitzer

I have never been much of a researcher

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Mike Shula

We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Sam Barnes

There are no superstars on this team and I think that's going to be one of our strengths. We're very well balanced.

Trey Parker

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

Tyra Banks

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Beverly Johnson

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

Demi Lovato

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.

Carly Fiorina

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Vint Cerf

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Todd Burns

We had anticipated this technology coming, so we didn't do a lot of hiring.

Iris Apfel

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Dick Cheney

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

Dax Shepard

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Daniel Suarez

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

Drew Carey

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

Tom McLean

We're averaging about three a day right now in Citrus County.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Joey Porter

Three on the road? Nothing we've never done before.

Virginia Kennedy

Trophies can take over your life. So I keep them in three areas.

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

Rowan Alexander

Whether it is 1-0 or 6-0, it is three points.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Tyler Oakley

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Lilly Singh

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Mark Cuban

Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.

Charles Stross

I do not click on random youtube videos.

Camille Paglia

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

Dean Cain

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

David Brenner

We can place a product, virtually any size, in almost any location. It really depends on what the program and the video in each individual episode provides in terms of a logical or contextual background.

Bengie Molina

When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.

Chad Hurley

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation,