Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

Vladimir Potanin

Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.

Chang-Rae Lee

Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.

Pat Conroy

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Marianne Williamson

I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

Jane Green

I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.

Moshe Safdie

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.

Nassau William Senior

That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

Brad Brownell

I really challenged our guys in the locker room before the game, especially our seniors. Beckham did an outstanding job of talking to the guys in the locker room, and getting them motivated a little bit, and it was the difference in the game.

Robbie Williams

When I met David Beckham I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face

Diego Maradona

Beckham is a nice man and I'm sure he will reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.

Wanderley Luxemburgo

Beckham is a great player, he was in the midst of everything.

George Best

Owen is great and Beckham is good. Owen is direct, fast and scores goals. Beckham has other qualities which make him good, but what makes a player different is the danger he poses to the opposing defense. That's where Owen is better than Beckham.

Gordon Taylor

David Beckham is a patriot, and I am sure he will help in any way he can. Beckham needs to be part of any future plans to remould the England set-up. Beckham and players like him need to be integrated into the set-up in the same way that the Germans take on board former players from Beckenbauer to Rummenigge.

David Collins

But we can most certainly stop the sort of nonsense Beckham had to put up with before the game from happening again.

Robert Pires

If Beckham had scored the match would have been over. There was no way for us to come back, ... The save proved that we were still in the game, that we had not given it up.

Val Kilmer

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

Chuck Palahniuk

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

Chuck Palahniuk

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

T. R. Knight

David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

Victoria Beckham

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

David Gilmour

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

Jackie Sherrill

When I got ready to leave, I recommended two people - R.C. and John David Crow. Fortunately, they were hired and they were able to keep things going without missing a beat. R.C. had all the ingredients to be a head coach. He was an outstanding recruiter. And he had a good feel for managing a staff from his work as defensive coordinator.

Jon Ronson

When David says that 12-foot blood-drinking child-sacrificing pedophile lizards secretly rule the world, he really is referring to lizards.

Charley Casserly

When David has time to throw, he does a good job. Offensive tackle is a hard position to solve unless you use a high draft pick, and we've used those picks on other positions. Good tackles aren't sitting there in free agency.

Karin Slaughter

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

Nik Wallenda

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

Kate Atkinson

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

Robert Hunter

We can share what we got of yours'Cause we done shared all of mine

Frank Holmes

Those miners who are hedged are put in the penalty box.

Irwin Thomas

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

Patricia Briggs

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

Anna Kournikova

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Leon Max

Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.

Luke Evans

A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.

Harry Graf Kessler

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Bill Young

We're wearing out our troops, we're wearing out the equipment,

Charles Stross

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Maria Sharapova

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Stephen Colbert

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,