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.

Will Yun Lee

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Mike Birbiglia

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

William Sadler

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

Patricia Richardson

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Mikhail Bakunin

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

Matthew Bourne

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

debbie nicholson

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Estelle

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Erwin McManus

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Gore Vidal

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Luis Federico Leloir

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

Tim Hunt

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Kenneth Starr

He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Saul Perlmutter

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

Joe Klein

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

Omar Bongo

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Christine Parker

We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.

Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues.

David Hanson

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

William Gibson

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

Sarah Hall

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Kurt Vonnegut

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.