Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

Alexander Farrell

The (past) studies that reported a negative net energy assumed one should ignore co-products.

Brian Kernighan

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Ben Elliot

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons.

Bill Hader

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

Wole Soyinka

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Courtney Gains

I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.

Emma McLaughlin

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.

Emma McLaughlin

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Kevin Durkin

The pedestrian gate on the southwest corner of the intersection had been manipulated, so that it was in the up position.

Bruce Coville

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

Christopher Fry

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time

Christopher Fry

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Barack Obama

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Tobin Bell

'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.

B. B. King

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

Bruce Rauner

I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

Bruce Jackson

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Gerry Harvey

The political system is broke. It doesn't matter who the leader is if you are frozen in time and your hands are tied. Social media is so strong that minority groups get a huge say.

Ann Bancroft

My brother Bill, who is a year older, is a climber, and when I was in the seventh grade, he taught me how to rappel off the frozen waterfall in our backyard.

Edward Kitsis

Frozen is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale.

Sarah Hall

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.

Bob Elliston

You'll never see a sloppy, frozen or muddy track.

Igor Stravinsky

Composition is frozen improvisation.

Jerry Rubin

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Jurgen Habermas

[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

Michael J. Fox

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

Terry Riley

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Jeremy Taylor

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Al Ries

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Jane Hamilton

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

Michael Pollan

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

Paul Newman

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

Masaharu Morimoto

I always have dashi in my refrigerator - it's the almighty Japanese ingredient.

Michael Jackson

The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.

Jessica Capshaw

Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

Chino Moreno

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Alice Walker

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Sean Booth

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Taryn Manning

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

Caroline Thompson

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

Kailash Kher

The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

Cam Newton

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

Dylan Moran

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

M. Wolfe

As soon as we can get processed through, we're going to show up out there,

Javier Solana

They are now being processed for transfer to The Hague,

Sam Barnes

There are no superstars on this team and I think that's going to be one of our strengths. We're very well balanced.

Trey Parker

I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.

Tyra Banks

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Carl Sagan

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Beverly Johnson

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Edward Gibbon

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

Demi Lovato

It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.