Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Hawk

If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

Michelle Monaghan

You know I think it's hard in any film when you're kissing someone who you don't really have genuine feelings for... but at the same time it's our job so... there are worse things I could be doing on that particular day than kissing Tom Cruise I suppose... i'm not going to complain.

Jim Kubinski

With the field coming, we got a lot of good teams playing there. I think you're going to have to shoot some good numbers, you're not going to be able to just kind of put it in cruise control. We're going to have to play hard, and we're going to have to play well.

Brad Dean

We grew because we offered more for your money. Today, everyone offers that, from cruise lines to casinos. ... Everybody is selling value for the money and packaging it with convenience. It's got to be more than simply price.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

James Graf

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we are starting to enter into the realm where we have lost two spacecraft in the last 15 years.

Nicole Kidman

Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise)

Anthony Amero

Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.

Robert Forney

Several ships have (the outbreaks), but it's not a cruise ship problem. It's a people problem.

Wendy Kopp

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

David Byrne

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint exactly what makes each city's people unique yet.

Brooke Burke

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Natasha Trethewey

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Ninette de Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Buddy Rich

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Sevyn Streeter

I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.

Timur Bekmambetov

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

Devon Aoki

I'm pleased to be a part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

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.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Keay Nakae

The overall number where there is actually a problem is still low, but more importantly, you've got, once again, a revelation that the problem is a little wider than first thought. What people had been hoping to see is some end to this.

Jay Taylor

We are not doing it for the money, obviously. When I was a kid, and I played rock 'n' roll, I was hoping for stardom and all of that type (of) stuff, but reality kicked in.

Lech Walesa

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

Vikram Seth

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Tim Crawford

We set a school record with seven qualifiers last year. We're hoping to improve on that this weekend.

David Wilcox

We had some injuries, and we're hoping we'll get another shot at them in the playoffs.

Carlos Rodriguez

Those are encouraging signs, that's for sure. We see light at the end of the tunnel, but with this virus, we still can't be certain. We stay cautious, hoping she'll be recovered before the Olympics start.

Linda Baker

We actually had to turn people away at the door. We're hoping to have a repeat performance this year.

Chris Ryan

We are just hoping and praying this pans out because it will save us a lot of time and money. Time is of the essence.

Nile Rodgers

I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.

Nick Park

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Todd Lowe

Vampires are pretty frightening. Knowing they can 'glamor' you is pretty weird. And you shake hands or hug them and they're cold. I wouldn't like that.

Anne Robinson

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Charli Turner

We have the mentality and we understand the expectations that have been set. Knowing you can do it and actually doing it are two different things, but for now, I know we can repeat from last year.

Deborah Lewis

We're lost, not knowing what the next day is going to bring.

John Cannon

We have no way of knowing that at this time.

Scott Anderson

We have no way of knowing if someone is a nominee officer or a regular officer.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Whitey Ford

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Van Morrison

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Yayoi Kusama

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

Yayoi Kusama

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

David Foster

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Cheryl Cole

I don't think I'm a style icon, not at all. Sometimes I just want to rock out in me scruffs and me Uggs. You know, a really comfy old tracksuit with maybe a dollop of ketchup down the front.

Paul Merton

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning.

Even Pellerud

We played another solid game. Maybe more solid than spectacular.

Terry Gilliam

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.

Werner Herzog

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Connie Sellecca

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Sean Booth

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

Lou Adler

I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Marlon Wayans

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

Masahiro Tanaka

I really didn't have one particular athlete I liked growing up.

Gary Jackson

We did not receive any request from them to review a particular size standard for that particular program.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Christo

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Paul Park

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

Brent Trout

We need to have this project done before the school opens.

Jim Wolfgang

We don't have any project that repeats what's going on in the classroom. All this is value-added.

Viktor Vekselberg

We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

Casey Wilson

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.

Bill Hader

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

Lauren Miller

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

David Twohy

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Duchovny

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Chuck Feeney

I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.

Rand Hoch

Tom Lynch may not be the only one who could use a sensitivity workshop.

Don Meredith

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Scott Baio

Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.

Richard Gentles

We'll know tomorrow from the vet if he can be released.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

Will Sergeant

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Loesje

You do not have to be a hurricane, to turn things around

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Ned Yost

We haven't pitched very well. But those things turn around.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Valentino Castellani

We are having a party. A wonderful party.

Walter Benjamin

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

William Shakespeare

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Daniel Handler

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Bette Midler

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.