Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Bolcom

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

Vikram Seth

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

Jane Marshall

The points that I do correspond to organ systems that help physically with detoxification and strengthening of the body as well as the mental aspects of will power and letting go.

Brian Wildsmith

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

Dev Hynes

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Randy Neugebauer

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

Nathaniel Branden

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

Enya

I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.

Charles Hazlewood

Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to tell the audience why you're playing it, what are the key aspects to it, and then throw in a bit about its historical context.

Chris Bohjalian

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Naomie Harris

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

Val McDermid

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

A. N. Wilson

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Cathleen Schine

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

Andy Enright

I woke up for about a minute, and I remember seeing Austen lying on the ground. I was so mad I couldn't help him. I felt paralyzed. I tried to tell him I loved him, but I couldn't talk.

Susanna Clarke

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.

Sam Bertsch

We did a much better job of breaking things down and making the extra pass in the second half. Austen was a difference-make for us.

Simon Schama

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Dev Hynes

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Donald Trump

The USGA is terrific. I've designed my course in Bedminster to the highest standards of the USGA, and it's a very special course.

Francis Fukuyama

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

Ernie Els

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Clive Sinclair

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Dinaw Mengestu

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Don Winslow

We always think of borders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It's something you have in common, literally.

Billy Mayfair

We played about five holes with no wind, and then it started blowing. We played pretty much the whole back side with at least a 10-15 mph wind. It plays tricky. We just don't know the golf course well enough yet.

Rick Clancy

We plan on revealing more in the course of quarterly earnings announcements or as specific developments dictate.

Bill Hader

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

Richard DeVos

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

James Galway

When I was a kid I was nervous too and it never crossed my mind to take drugs.

Eddie Guerrero

I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

B. R. Hayden

We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.

Kat Graham

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. Also, I liked 'I Am Legend' because it was so unexpected. The movie wasn't what I thought it'd turn out to be.

Paul Bennett

We defend the student's right to express their own opinions but there have to be some limits on it. And our feeling is that this crossed the boundaries.

Chris Dunshee

We're keeping our fingers crossed that everything will go off and we'll get the kids back in,

Pete Foley

We're keeping our fingers crossed that everyone is healthy.

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.

William E. Conway, Jr.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Chino Moreno

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

Rick Lynch

The policy doesn't need to change. The policy that's in effect is the one that will stay in effect.

Tito Mboweni

The overall effect of the international oil price increases on inflation and output has been far more muted than expected.

David Hanson

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

Denis Napthine

We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

Nash Grier

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

Tim Conway

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

Clive Sinclair

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Jane Austen

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.

Larry Martin

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired.

JJ Feild

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

Alexis Smith

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Rev. Barham

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Zac Efron

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

William Shatner

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

Will Chase

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

Ville Valo

I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

Billy Graham

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Billy Graham

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Chet Faker

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.

Chet Faker

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Chuck Palahniuk

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

David Harsanyi

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

Willard Scott

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Daniel Yergin

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

David Jones

We have always done a very wide range of plays.

Harland Williams

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

Igor Shpilband

Unfortunately they ran out of steam a little bit.

Shawn Springs

We were just overmatched. We ran into a team that was just better than us.

Ranbir Kapoor

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

Colin Wilson

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Halle Berry

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

Ann Voskamp

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Mike Elliott

Yeah, but it's not as romantic or as theatrical as that. It's very low-key.

Allison Williams

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

Tony Benn

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Oscar Isaac

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

Russell Tovey

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

Oriana Fallaci

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

John Schneider

'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.

Mike Hargrove

I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.

Phil Dinsky

There's nothing terribly wrong with it. It's going to be re-formatting it and updating a little bit.

Roilo Golez

I'm terribly disappointed with (Marcos). But that is her prerogative,

Nastassja Kinski

I'm not terribly consistent, and that worries me.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charles Spurgeon

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

Alan Clark

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

Billy Joel

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

Audrey Hepburn

True friends are families which you can select.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Rimbaud

True life is elsewhere