Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Brownlow

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

Bruce Springsteen

When i look in your eyes is that you baby, or just a brilliant disguise.

Thomas Sangster

On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'

Alexandra Roach

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

Beatrice Arthur

Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it.

Cate Blanchett

Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.

Erich Bergen

I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady Gaga on 'Gossip Girl,' and the brilliant Felicity Huffman on 'Desperate Housewives,' but I think my favorite TV job so far was the pilot I shot for the CW Network this year called 'Joey Dakota.'

Augie Garrido

We've run into a team that is extremely well prepared and very capable. This isn't so much a fact that we're not any good, it's more about the fact that, hey, they're pretty brilliant right now. This is good stuff that they're doing.

Viktor Khristenko

The facility is brilliant for Russian infrastructure in terms of all parameters.

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Kathryn Lasky

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

Ollie Goulston

When he is out there on the court he makes everyone around him better. He is consummate point guard in that way. A lot of it is the intangibles, like calling the right sets, getting guys in the right position and creating.

Tyra Banks

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

Bob Lee

We had a very difficult time finding many of the officers who worked on these cases to interview them or even call them up because there was no phone services.

Jennifer Woods

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way of instilling the desire to learn in her students.

Madeleine Peyroux

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I found music that could sustain me. I found jazz and other music that I could call mine.

Dontrelle Willis

When I got the call telling me I had won, I was definitely floored and honored.

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

Donald Anderson

We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.

Robert Anderson

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

Evan Katz

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

Stephane Dujarric

We've relayed our concerns to them and as I said, it's our duty to speak up to them when we think that the framework they're talking about doesn't meet electoral standards. When there is a contradiction on two different interpretations within one text that would become an issue.

Mark Klein

We share a lot of the same concerns many of our employees have. The immigration process is broken, and we need true solutions to it.

Thomas Frank

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.

Thomas R. Cech

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Jim Allchin

We're just trying to be responsive to their concerns and also be forthright about where we are in terms of being a few weeks late for quality.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Edward Norton

Life, like poker, has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

Jeffrey Clark

Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get used to it. But they were hanging in there,

George Fleming

Let them know who may be contacting them, and briefly outline the key elements you would like them to respond to. That way, your references will be able to respond with relevant information.

Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Tiffani Thiessen

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.

Charles Eastman

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Langhorne Slim

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

Jan Garbarek

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Audre Lorde

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Arthur Rimbaud

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

Dick Costolo

Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

Alain Ducasse

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Charles R. Swindoll

There can be no more reliable authority on earth than God's Word, the Bible. This timeless, trustworthy source of truth holds the key that unlocks life's mysteries. It alone provides us with the shelter we need in times of storm.

Charles Kettering

The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

Chris Cornell

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

Sylvia Hatchell

We did key a little on her. We were trying to keep her from getting hot.

Jan Garbarek

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

Jerramy Stevens

When I looked back, he was scrambling. I knew something was off.

Kenji Johjima

When I left the base, I already knew I was out.

Craig Bellamy

We needed another outside back that we knew could play first grade. We thought we were one short there.

O. Henry

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Richard Ernst

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

David Remnick

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

David Icke

How much did Jim Morrison know?

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

August Strindberg

Necessity knows no rules.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Pete Murray

We had been playing solidly for 18 months, everyone knows how to play together,

Andy Xie

We're going down to the bottom. No one knows where that is.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Elizabeth Hardwick

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Alfred Jarry

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Carolyn Kwan

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

David Frost

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Nitsan Hargil

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

Ivan Turgenev

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

Oscar Wilde

To be popular I must be mediocre.

Michael Arndt

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

Kate Winslet

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Mike Scioscia

We're seeing a steady progression with Bart, but Escobar is going through the roof. He's ready. He's really picked it up.

Gary Barnett

But we've sputtered at times on offense, especially in the red zone. But at the end of the half, we picked up things there.

Denise Marshall

I wish I could have picked all of them.

Louie Perez

We ran with them in the first half. We picked up fouls and we couldn't press.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Joan Rodgers

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Don Ho

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Dennis Prager

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Rudy Giuliani

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Tony Wood

I would urge patrons to go to the polls and vote, ... I think it's important to participate in this process.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is not they who will decide, but we when we go to the polls on Sunday,

Oscar Arias

Today, we'll make reality what the polls have been saying.

Herb Sendek

It's early, those polls and rankings are going to change.

Michael Bloomberg

You can't depend on polls.

Lech Walesa

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Carina Perelli

The important thing now, for the first time in a long time they have turned to the polls and not to the guns.

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Jason Clarke

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Janice Hahn

I was born into public service.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've never had a very great public life.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Barbara Hershey

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Dan Kaiser

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.