Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.

William Fichtner

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

William Thomas Green Morton

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

Chuck Palahniuk

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Bill Gates

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Clotilde Hesme

I am very organic; I eat a lot of seeds. At home in the morning, I eat muesli with a banana. At noon, I mix a little bit of all the seeds I can find. I love quinoa. It's great - it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

Chris Carter

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

Evangeline Lilly

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

Ellie Goulding

I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

Jeffrey Archer

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

David Bailey

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

Johnny Damon

The past two days we've had a chance to take them out early. As an offense, we have to find a way to keep it going.

Common

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

Brad Goreski

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

Christine Keeler

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Zac Efron

The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

Yann Martel

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Ellen Key

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Everett Dirksen

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Samuel Butler

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Clemence Poesy

I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it.

Nicki Minaj

I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Pharrell Williams

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Paul Kantner

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Susan Minot

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Heikki Kovalainen

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Katie McGrath

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

Ken King

We're activating relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been there.

Elizabeth Langland

Otherwise you're like a three-legged stool on two legs.

Oliver Cromwell

Remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

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.

English Proverbs

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

Mark DiCamillo

Voters are saying we need someone there who's not going to rock the boat.

Henry Spencer

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Dan Epstein

We're not talking about rocket science here. It's simple food, but it will be fast, fresh, and good.

Kevin Millar

You are a rock star when you play in that city.

Amanda Hoffman

We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.

Alan Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Jim Smith

We're not trying to make the rodeo disappear. We're trying to give it a hiatus, so that it can survive.

James White

Rodney was smart. You want to have fun, but you can't get hurt.

Pete Johnson

rode out (hurricane) Camille (in 1969) when I was 20 years old.

John Skelton

He that spareth the rod hateth his son.

Paul Konerko

Garland, we just hopped on his back tonight and just rode him.

George Bernard Shaw

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

Joan Jett

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

Rachel Hunter

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

Laura Lippman

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Lisa Marie Presley

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

Marilyn Horne

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

Nana Mouskouri

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

Max Weinberg

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

John Wanamaker

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Simon

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

Pat Paulsen

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

Henry B. Eyring

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Steve Ron

We're at least two years away from starting construction.

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Eden Sher

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Rob Jordan

We're starting to get a little more notice.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.