Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Norville

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

Kevin Kwan

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

John Krasinski

Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.

John Lasseter

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

Raul Ruiz

When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

Celeste Ryan

When I look at her from a distance, it is amazing to me what she has done. I have to catch myself when I start to treat her as if she is still a kid.

Kylie Minogue

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

Thomas Gibson

Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.

Tessanne Chin

When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but she is just an amazing person.

David Walker

I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

David Walker

Karate is for life, not points.

David Rockefeller

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

David Rockefeller

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Horowitz

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

David Horowitz

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

David Hilbert

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality

David Hockney

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

David Hockney

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

David Viscott

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

David Walliams

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

David Walliams

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

David Rockefeller

Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.

David Rockefeller

Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

David Henry Hwang

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

David Hewson

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hilbert

We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

David Hilbert

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Frank Maloney

Wayne McCullough and Michael Brodie stood toe-to-toe with him and that brought out the best in Scott.

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Marcel Proust

We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Issa Rae

I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

When I was modeling in Japan, I could blend in a little because of my hair, but my roommates with blonde hair got harassed. People would touch their hair and grope them in the subway. Actually, a lot of groping happens in the subway in Japan, but that's probably true of subways everywhere.

Larry Smarr

This program is a terrific example of the blending of science and entertainment. It fits wonderfully with Calit2's mission of helping the public understand what research organizations like ours are doing and how it might impact their lives.

Nancy Ammerman

One of the things that impressed me was that blend of the traditional Southern revival with the cultural sensibilities of a middle-class suburban congregation.

Adonal Foyle

More importantly than putting together a string of victories is being able to play consistently on both ends of the floor. Tonight was the first step toward blending good defense and good offense.

John Whittier

She blended in a like degree The vixen and the devotee

Jeff Young

Ms. Huntington has brought a very professional blend of head and heart to Newton North High School, ... She is tremendously intelligent and very compassionate.

Andrea Ward

My favorite to make is the oil paintings. The colors blend better, but they take longer to dry and I just started using it.

Kate Fisher

she says, blending the musical style of the 1860s with a more modern feel.

Kathryn Lasky

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.

John Grisham

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Karen McGuire

We had books in our library already on this art. That meant we could do research in our own collection.

Jean Fritz

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.

Edward Brooke

When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

Helen Sharman

When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first left Earth will be of huge importance. Star City is a central part of this story and it deserves more recognition.

O. R. Melling

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

Yves Guillemot

We're looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.

Reid Hoffman

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Kevin Wilson

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

Cory Michael Smith

When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.

Taran Killam

I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

Robert Mankoff

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

Dennis Franz

Leave It to Beaver.' I could relate to being that age. It also kind of was an ideal world, at least at that time. I look at it now, and it wasn't very politically correct. But I felt all warm and fuzzy when watching the show. I used to read Little Lulu comics for the same reason. It was just a perfect world.

Tracy Hickman

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

Dane Cook

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

Jessica Abel

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

Paula Otto

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

Scot Roskelley

I had one or two unpleasant occurrences. I don't need to get any more graphic than that.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I was at Ground Zero, and it was, to me, such a graphic illustration of what terrorism has done to our world.

Thomas Sokolowski

He was the most sought-after graphic illustrator in New York City. He was making $150,000 a year, which is like a half-million now.

Kyrie Irving

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

Marissa Moss

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Aisha Tyler

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Dave Kinney

The graphics are very good, better than a lot of simulators. The avionics is what the key is. They're real avionics.

David Hume

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.

Audre Lorde

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Audre Lorde

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Audre Lorde

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Audre Lorde

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Charles Clarke

Few nations match our rich resource of literature.

Jane Austen

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

Jane Austen

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Jane Austen

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Deborah Moggach

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

Godfrey Gao

'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Graham Swift

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

Alice Oswald

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Robin Hobb

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Charlie Kaufman

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Jim Zwerg

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere

Arnold Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Denise Martin

True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.

Aimee Teegarden

I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Blake Mycoskie

The more you give, the more you live.

Blaise Pascal

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.