Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Hay

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

Colin Hay

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

Adam Carr

The path of least resistance for the Australian dollar is down. Base-metal prices are likely to continue to come off a bit as inventories rebuild.

Bryan Brown

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

Barry O'Farrell

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Colleen McCullough

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

Colleen McCullough

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that." ()

Peter Singer

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

Ben Mendelsohn

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of the place. I had about as good a run there as anybody, but it's still a tough ask. I mean, the person I think with the best career in Australia is Ray Meagher, in 'Home and Away.'

Frank Caliendo

With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

Randy Carlyle

We played a lot harder tonight than we have in a lot of our games, particularly on the road.

Sarah Hall

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.

Valerie Simpson

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

Felix Hernandez

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.

Nikki Sixx

It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

Lorene Scafaria

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

Tom Poti

We did some stupid things we need to fix; it was a parade to the box. Especially back-to-back nights, we had no legs at the end. Because we're young, the refs might be harder on us.

Jim Shea

Tomorrow, that's when I'd like to have this done. But the A.A.A. has told us a fact-finding arbitrator is harder to find.

Nina Easton

Shamu the killer whale is Sea World's Mickey Mouse; whales named Shamu are the star attractions of three parks and the focus of their marketing efforts.

Patrick Fugit

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Chelsea Handler

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

Matt Mullenweg

You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

Elie Wiesel

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Laura Wade

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Jack LaLanne

Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late.

Jack Kevorkian

I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

George W. Bush

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

Terri Mitchell

When you're playing the seventh ranked team in the nation, you need to do something special to win. They knocked down their shots and we didn't.

Clark Haggans

We've knocked down seven of the eight. We just have one more to go.

Brandon Claussen

When I walked over there, he wasn't moving. He was knocked out. He wasn't moving at all.

Alex Johnson

Like all the wind was knocked out of you.

A. Johnson

(Luca) wasn't that sharp, especially after he got the wind knocked out of him. We were able to get into their bullpen, which is really important in the third (game of the series).

Ken Rhoden

She was one of our main contributors and knocked in the winning run in the state championship game.

Todd Fischer

Mathematically, I could get knocked out, but I'd have to be very unlucky on my part to do that, ... just to try to make sure I don't get that unlucky break.

Marvin Harrison

I was trying to get up slowly so I wouldn't get knocked in the head, ... and I got up and ran.

Manny Pacquiao

I think he can come back. It was (only) his first time (an opponent) knocked him out.

William Cowper

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Peter Bell

We're lining up the land planning on that site right now.

Angela Ahrendts

Store windows are like landing pages on the website.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Bible Bible

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

John Milton

Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait

M. Wolfe

Truck traffic was a big problem for people in my ward when the landfill was open,

Ludwig von Mises

In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards something. Its ultimate end is always to get rid of a condition which is conceived to be deficient-to fulfill a need, to achieve satisfaction, to increase happiness.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Karl Pilkington

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Jason Fuchs

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

Nikki Reed

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

Nikki Sixx

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

S. T. Joshi

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Barbra Streisand

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Naoto Kan

I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

Chris Jordan

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.