Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Park

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Carolyn Kizer

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

Megan Knode

We discovered we shared the love of cooking. It was actually in second grade, and we said when we grew up we should start a restaurant.

Toni Harris

We discovered we have a quarterback who can run,

Mike Bender

We discovered these people are for real and very important,

Pam Compton

We discovered there was a gap. We started working with employers on how they could comply, and as a result, collections just skyrocketed.

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

Paul Kern

We discovered serious misconduct and a loss of moral values,

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

G. Gordon Liddy

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind

Persius

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

J. C. Watts

We played and did everything right except score the last two points. We made a lot of good plays but shot ourselves in the foot in the end.

Chris Petersen

We play a lot of people. That way not everyone has to know everything we're doing, except for the quarterback. He has to know everything. Some teams have a tendency to play three, four receivers. We'll play seven or eight. Some teams play one or two running backs. We'll play five.

Tom Wopat

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Meriwether Lewis

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

Beeban Kidron

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.

Foster Friess

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

Scott Walker

We had some guys who really picked it up for us. I was very pleased with the way the guys filled in around the edges.

Ambrose Burnside

So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.

C. Day Lewis

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

Isaac Brock

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

Isabella Bird

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Josh Byrnes

We had a need, and we hope it's filled for several years now.

Scott Warner

We have a whole room filled with those,

Evel Knievel

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

Nancy Gibbs

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

Comte de Lautreamont

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Victor LaValle

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.

Terry Trippler

When Americans get their vacation, they're going. If they're going to see Grandma and they're planning to see Grandma, $100 is not going to keep them home.

Lisa McMann

I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Brandi Carlile

'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.

Pierce Brosnan

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

Patrick Stewart

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Peter Jackson

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

Kabir Bedi

Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

Willie Robertson

Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Steve Sullivan

We had a lot of positives this year, but this is no longer acceptable.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

William Shakespeare

so full of shapes is fancy

Charles Dickens

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Blanka Vlasic

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

Edith Wharton

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

David Hockney

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

Edward Furlong

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

bell hooks

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Desiderius Erasmus

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Dennis Crowley

Stop sketching and start building.

Dennis Crowley

Stop sketching. Start building.

Jim Rash

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

John Lloyd

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.

Selenis Leyva

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Artie Lange

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

Vincent Van Gogh

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Cary Fukunaga

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Luka Sulic

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Nandan Nilekani

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Larry Coker

We had a little edge, ... We took it a little personal.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.