Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cleveland Amory

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Karl Pilkington

To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?

Anna Kournikova

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

Anna Netrebko

I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Hiroyuki Yamada

Treasuries are expensive at these levels given that the Fed is still going to raise interest rates. The Fed is still worried about inflation.

Christie Brinkley

You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

H. Hart

We don't have such a policy. It is very expensive to increase reserves for the sake of it. The money can be better spent on other social needs.

John Biggs

We have a group of very expensive lawyers working on this investigation, including through weekends. Given that, I don't know what more we can do.

Rajat Jain

Valuations are not cheap, that's what worries me. But it probably will get more expensive before it gets cheaper.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Steve Buscemi

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Charles Manson

When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!

Vincent Simeone

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

Matt Winkler

When a team gets into a slump, it seems everyone does. Fortunately, Jake and Jordan stepped up.

Vanessa Paradis

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Cheryl Cole

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Charlie Kaufman

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

Val McDermid

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

Tommy Caldwell

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Victor LaValle

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Bruce Jackson

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Faran Tahir

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Kelly Overton

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

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.

Johnnie Burton

There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just the pipes that's the problem, it's everything at the end of the pipe also.

Troy Smith

Pressure busts pipes -- but it can also make a diamond. I'm a diamond.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Janice Miller

Where do I sign up? I can't wait.

Gloria Steinem

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Kareena Kapoor Khan

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Jayne Middlemiss

You know what you are signing up for when you become involved,

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Kelly Chesney

Voters need to read the petitions. Don't sign anything unless you know what it says.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Mike Nichols

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

Jim Lovell

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Jeff Goodby

was just throbbing out there, waiting to be appropriated.

Chris Paulitz

We're just going to wait for the markup.

Craig Patrick

We're done negotiating. We're just waiting for the answer.

Michel Lu

We have to wait for confirmation (of the reports) from our embassy. After this, we will see what we will do.

Morten Olsen

We have to wait and see after today's training.

Rex Norman

We don't have any word for sure. On the record, I know what you know - which is wait for the announcement ... but there has been speculation.

Linda Cox

We'll wait to see if DOE approves it.

Jake Siewert

We'll wait and see how it comes out in the Senate.

Ken Henderson

We have been waiting all year to put it all together.