Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

William Fichtner

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Thomas Green Morton

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Chuck Palahniuk

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Bill Gates

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Clotilde Hesme

I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Chris Carter

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

Evangeline Lilly

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

Ellie Goulding

I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Patrick Murphy

Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

Norman Foster

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Virginia Postrel

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

Karl Malone

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

Alan Williams

We still have a few more cuts to make before next weekend and that is going to be hard. If you get to this point you're obviously a skilled player but we only have so much room. We'll use these games to see how the players react to a more intense situation than they're used to.

Brad Bevis

We had some good performances but we had some disappointments in some areas. We have some nicks and cuts in some places and we are young. But we're running varsity. It's not middle school or freshman meets, it's varsity. So these guys have to pick it up and get the job done.

Lincoln Chafee

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

Peter Jackson

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

Gregg Popovich

The pieces have to fit around him. The fortunate thing for us is that it seems that, given enough talent, all pieces fit around Timmy. He figures it out.

Rene Locher

The overall figures are lower-than-expected, not only because of the catastrophe claims, but also because of the reserve additions.

Annie Lennox

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

Chuck Schumer

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Brad Paisley

I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.'

Don Cornelius

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Todd Haynes

It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

Vesta Williams

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Yotam Ottolenghi

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

S. Truett Cathy

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

Bee Wilson

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Vidya Balan

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

Ninette de Valois

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

F. Sionil Jose

I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

Peter De Vries

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

Richard Daley

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

F. Sionil Jose

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

Sylvester Stallone

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Alan Cohen

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Bradley A. Smith

There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

Frank McNeil

There are other positions I would have liked to have seen a greater presence of African-Americans in, ... It isn't over until it's over. My role is to keep the pressure on.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Joe Hogan

We can see what's going on with greater specificity. The need for biopsies will be reduced.

Robin S. Sharma

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Dick Cheney

We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

Toni Atkins

We don't have a lot of places to find this money, ... I think we do all want to know what the impact to services is going to be, and none of it is going to be good.

Paul Schlamm

Was it an impact break? Was there a crack? Was there something pre-existing?

Mike Rogers

We are looking for savings that don't impact the impoverished person,

Mark McKinnon

Technology has had more of an impact on the presidency and how the presidency communicates than anything.

Jose Gomez

Tiago did have an impact on the way the team played last year and we're looking for that as well this year,

Joe Donzelli

We'll do it when it will have the least impact on transportation.

Michael Conway

We're not real worried. It won't have that big of an impact on us financially.

Brian Brennan

Today's numbers threw some (inflation) fears. We could see some nervousness on the mortgage side.

Peter Akinola

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Dexter Holland

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

John Porter

It's tough. My mortgage there is $2,000, and my rent here is $2,350, so we're not doing much but working and paying the mortgage.

Jim Butcher

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Julia Gillard

I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

Jennifer Ellison

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Suze Orman

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

Carol Rebello

I made all my payments on time, but I never got a mortgage bill.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Kurt Cohen

We played well defensively. Obviously that was the difference.

Nick Price

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Brian Celio

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Frank Haith

We're not totally out of it. Obviously we need to win (today) and we need to go into the (ACC) tournament and win one and, maybe, two games. As much as (FSU is) playing for something, we have to understand we're playing for something, too.

Tom Glavine

We have a lot of expectations for ourselves, and obviously a lot of people have expectations of us. I can't think of a better way to start the year.

Brian Dobie

We had kind of been discounting him in any of our plans for some time now, but this is obviously very shocking.

Yvette Lopez

We probably won't see prices come back down until the fall, so be prepared to pay a lot more at the pump. It's inevitable.

Teri Hatcher

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Lamar Alexander

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Kristin Armstrong

No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.

Peter Schuyler

What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war.

Ben Hinson

We can't have people at the partnership wondering if they can pay the bills.

Bruce Lakefield

Ticket prices are going up. You have to pay for the product.

Bill Vaughan

We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

Ryan Holmes

Payfirma has revolutionized the payment process, consolidating mobile, e-commerce and in-store payments under a single solution, much like HootSuite did for social media.

Ezra Taft Benson

Gods' payment is the best payment.

Allen Fishbein

There could be a series of payment shocks.

David Holland

One of the quickest ways to get rid of the lease payment is to get rid of your car.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

Lee Iacocca

I learned that monthly payments are the cornerstone of everything in the automobile business.

Ashley Ellott

The down payment is $400,000 for the car.

Gene Wolfe

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Kong Quan

We are not in a position to receive this visit.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

We are not in a position to propose a specific plan.

Edward Bilkey

We are not in a position now to stop this.

Lucy Liu

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Philip Hammond

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Richy Leon

We need to tighten up defensively. We still have positions where we need to find somebody to step up.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Alan Embree

When you're in a position to put somebody away, you have to just do it. It's not mechanical.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Francia Raisa

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.