Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa O'Hare

I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Amanda Palmer

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

Max Lawson

We are really depressed. We are left clawing our way back to commitments made three years ago. When we start defining success as simply standing still, that's a terrible situation to be in.

Kristi Johnson

We have been working hard on defining our tourism focus and marketing it.

Steve Harmon

Very few have been successful. Nuance is really defining voice interface.

Scott Cook

Intuit is defining and leading the new world of e-finance -- and that strategy is paying off.

O. Winston

In terms of defining this presidency, the next several months are critical.

Nigel Hawkins

The difficulty is defining where the local loop and the fixed line infrastructure begins. It's a complicated story but I'm really skeptical if any of these reports during the summer silly season will lead anywhere.

Michael Morales

This has been the defining property of this Valley for a long time.

Aimee Bender

I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.

Yehuda Amichai

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Yann Martel

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Les Claypool

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Jeffery Deaver

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

Tom Waits

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Elizabeth Peyton

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

Robert Fripp

You have to find a way of recognizing and describing the quality inherent in the music. If you fail to do that, then the piece itself is compromised.

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Eric Andre

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Damien Chazelle

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Sevyn Streeter

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

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.