Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Virginia Postrel

The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a forgettable green plastic box.

Vikram Seth

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

Yani Tseng

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

Yehuda Berg

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

Chita Rivera

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

Janna Sampson

The only reason this plan looks reasonable is that it is scaled back from something that was fairly audacious.

Noah Baumbach

Even fairly serious moviegoers can't shake this shadow of the corporate world.

John Gunter

We had a pretty good season. It was fairly satisfying.

Ian Blair

Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon.

Jodi Manore

We actually played fairly well. We're just trying to focus on playing well on our side of the net.

Richard Harris

Up front played fairly solid, but not sound. I want to get them sound and solid.

Clementa C. Pinckney

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

Peter Jurasik

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.

John Lasseter

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

William R. Alger

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Dan Ford

Wasn't their mess. Was the loose mess that had already gathered the night before. Lemme tell you...they did clean.

Ludivine Sagnier

I would like to perform more in English. But there have to be many good things gathered for me to be willing to do a movie. I watch trailers of every new American movie and I'm, like, 'OK, I'm not missing anything!'

Neil Sheehan

We've reviewed all the information they gathered at the 110 percent power level and have not identified any anomalies or reasons to prevent them from going to the next higher power level.

Joshua Reynolds

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Pat Riley

We gathered ourselves really well in the third quarter and played really well.

Jim Montgomery

By legend, after the shows performers and stagehands gathered to play poker hands.

Romeo Crennel

I think they gathered together and played better (in the second half). We didn't play as well and they were able to slow him down.

Marcia Danchise

We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and dryers to clothes. We've had an overwhelming response from the community. All of these items were gathered in only a week's time.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Pete Seeger

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Scott Cromwell

We played with them for about a half a quarter.

Ron Hop

We played a much better second half than they did.

Mark Oline

We probably won't know how significant their progress is until the second half of the year.

Larry Coker

We probably used him too much. I think we probably should have rested him more in the first half because I thought he got a little tired in the second half.

Meghan Markle

When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Bronson Pinchot

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

Brendon Urie

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Chris Colfer

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

Taylor Mali

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

John Brady

We just didn't think he was mentally as sharp as we needed him to be.

Ben Jones

We did not produce our strongest game. There were too many mistakes by us and we did not mentally really get into the match. They put us under a lot of pressure.

Richard Jefferson

We're not very mentally tough. We're not very physically tough. It's consistent. At some point in time you've got to get mad.

Chadwick Boseman

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

Mark Mowers

We wanted to make sure mentally we were ready and weren't still thinking about the Phoenix sun.

Olli Jokinen

We have to mentally ready to play every night, and tonight we weren't.

Riley Wallace

We're going to have to be mentally and physically ready. When you have no depth, the travel can really take its toll.

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Paul McHale

We prepared well. We were not passive. We were not slow.

Pearl Cleage

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

Timothy Brown

We can't go without water. We have to be prepared for anything.

William Williams

Thus having prepared their budsagainst a sure winterthe wise treesstand sleeping in the cold.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Michael Michele

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

Rafael Nadal

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

Vincent Schiavelli

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Santiago Creel

Vote by vote, we are going to win the second and third rounds,

Stephen Jones

We have visited with Mr. McVeigh. We are going to work with him today, tonight and tomorrow for the second stage on Wednesday. I can't say anything more at this time.

Marco Rubio

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Manish Jha

We need to tell a story in 30 seconds or in one minute.

Dave Roy

We were in the second game. We were right there.

J. C. Chandor

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

Art Briles

The quarterback part, to me, is secondary to him as a person. His background, being from West Texas, tough, unselfish, not spoiled ... he's a can't-miss guy, in my opinion.

Le Corbusier

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Herbert Hoover

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Alan Cohen

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

Walter Benjamin

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Wayne Gretzky

We need toughness. We're not tough enough. It is a simple fact.

Louise Hay

Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back

Ludwig von Mises

Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Steve Spurrier

We got to get better on defense, we got to get better on offense, we got to get better everywhere. Simple as that.

E. F. Schumacher

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Jorma Taccone

Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.

Ed Silliere

Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.