Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Gedde Watanabe

Sixteen Candles was my first film. I was 28 years old studying Shakespeare in New York, and it just freaked me out that this thing got so well known.

Adlai E. Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Cristela Alonzo

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Keith Richard

There is no clear plan until the music is telling you what to do. It yelled at us, 'Do not overproduce me. Do not put the icing and the marzipan and the candles on.'

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

David Hume

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

Athol Fugard

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

Arthur Rimbaud

He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

Alain de Botton

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

Albert Schweitzer

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

Kim Cattrall

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

Jane Austen

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Flavio Briatore

Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008.

Ash Rajan

One little pit stop in a Formula 500 race. It's just profit taking.

Heikki Kovalainen

I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1.

Ben Braun

I feel good about our chances. I also feel good that in our league, 17 wins has been a formula (for the NCAA tournament).

Todd Hollandsworth

I don't have a formula for it. You just prepare every day and try to be ready. We had lost three in a row, and I wanted to help out. I'm just glad the day went well for us.

Valerie Simpson

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

Ali Babacan

Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Joanna Scott

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God sent you here to prepare for a future greater than anything can imagine.

Marco Brambilla

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Gabriela Sabatini

When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Jan Block

No one ever says I CAN imagine losing two sons. They always say they CAN'T imagine losing two children.

Ken Warwick

One, we don't need to these days. There's a queue from the record companies, as you can probably imagine because we have 30 million people-plus each week tune in, and so we don't need to go hunting, as it were.

Jenn Lyon

My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

Sincerely, I didn't imagine anything like this and I'm surprised because I don't see any reason for a controversy,

Steve Jobs

Motorola did the phone. I could imagine other products in the future.

Brian Dawkins

Mentally, I just can't imagine what he's going through right now. But he's tough. He's going to push through this. I'm sure he'll do whatever it takes to get back.

Danny Boyle

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

John Barton

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

Michael Silver

If I rely on the user to remove metadata, a lot of that metadata is inevitably going to get through. It really needs to be automated.

Olivia Thirlby

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

Paul J. Meyer

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Jim Rash

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Constance Marie

After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.

Clark Ervin

There's understandable pressure to get money out quickly. But there inevitably will be waste and fraud.

Jake Gyllenhaal

There's inevitably a lot of talk about things like that,

Mayor Bingham

We are taking small steps -- planters, new lighting and sidewalk repairs.

Ian Rankin

I have him going into a pub and lighting up, and then being told by a barman that he has got only nine months to go before he has to stop.

Douglas Sirk

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

Paul McGee

It could be somebody running around lighting these fires. It is very upsetting.

Evelyn Fox

We totally refurnished and refurbished the lobby, lighting and furniture.

Lilly Singh

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

Ben Braun

This is something he's done in practice. He plays on the scout team and he's lighting us up.

Lenny Kravitz

In my environments, lighting is always very important.

Danielle Steel

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

Arnold Bennett

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Antonin Artaud

I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.

Antonin Artaud

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

Al Yankovic

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Arthur Koestler

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

C. S. Lewis

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

C. S. Lewis

Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

Brian Eno

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

David Walliams

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

David Hockney

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

David Hume

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty.

David Brainerd

In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the men were in some measure afraid of me; and I discoursed something about sanctifying the sabbath, if possible to solemnize their minds: but when they were at a little distance, they again talked freely about secular affairs. Oh, I thought what a hell it would be, to live with such men to eternity!

David Brainerd

This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

Barney Ross

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Barney Frank

If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Denis Leary

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Diana Gabaldon

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

Al Capp

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Al Goldstein

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Charles Babbage

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

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.

Alan Curtis

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action.

Chris Neil

I can't repeat that in the paper. You've got to let him know you can't let him run around like that. I just told him, we play them one more time.

Darren Clarke

I wish I could repeat it a little more often.

Debra Messing

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.'

Jeff Bower

I will repeat that, again, he's been disciplined.

Judd Anderson

It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Zach Thomas

Don't even try to type him. It's a waste of time. He'll never repeat tendencies.

Charles Meyers

It's not that I'm cavalier, it's more frustration at being contacted repeatedly with the same complaint.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.

Greg Biffle

So I'm saying we're not out of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Cate

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.

Bruce Larner

We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.

Daniel Handler

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.