Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emilia Fox

In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.

Feist

I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

Charlie Trotter

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time.

Virginia Postrel

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

Matthew Sweet

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Cate Blanchett

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

Gerry Schwartz

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

Chris Lilley

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

Al Jarreau

Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.

Constance Marie

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Chet Faker

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Brittany Curran

I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy the ride and the chase. Because nothing came easy, I really appreciate it when I book roles.

Brittany Snow

I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

Neil Peart

I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Damien Rice

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

Gary Kubic

We know we can do better and we appreciate suggestions.

Tamara Tunie

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.

George Douglas

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Bethany Mota

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

Thom Browne

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

Thom Browne

I think my collection is doing really well, but collaborating is actually just a nice exercise in doing something different. For example, I do things very differently for Moncler that I wouldn't specifically do for me. For me, I can do whatever I want. With other companies, you have to stay responsible to them.

Lynn Coady

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

Neil MacGregor

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

Bobbi Brown

The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

Monique Bond

The police needs the community and the community needs the police.

Steven Englander

The police force isn't big enough to enforce that sort of thing. This is where community expectation and standard will have to hold sway.

Tony Smith

The PBSO is eager to ensure the level of service your community expects, at a more cost effective savings than you currently have,

Christine Pelosi

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

Alice Walker

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Erwin McManus

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

Councilman Banks

When are you going to start work? It seems like it's taking a long time. The community needs to know.

Kirk Davis

When an immigrant is unable to read the language, they miss opportunities in the community.

Michael Chertoff

We have made a lot of progress in the first year of Community Shield.

Brittany Snow

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

Natalie Imbruglia

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

Nayvadius Cash

'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

Omid Namazi

We played well, but I thought what killed us was our finishing touch. We just have got to get better at finishing our chances. We are still confident and we think we can get it done at home.

Tom Barrett

I'm very confident that not only will the other candidates who ran for this office support me but all of their supporters will as well. So yes, I'm very confident that I will get their support.

Vera Wang

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

Errol Alcott

We'd like more time of course but we're confident he's responding to treatment and he'll have more treatment today. We'd like to make a decision today but may wait until tomorrow.

Steve Brown

We disagree with the decision and we are confident that the patent is enforceable.

Rob Glaser

We are not immune to the current market environment for Internet-related spending, and we've made adjustments to our near-term growth expectations. At the same time, we remain highly confident in our fundamentals, leadership position, and long-term prospects.

Don Rickles

In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.

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?'

Wislawa Szymborska

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Mother Jones

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Richard DeVos

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

Erin O'Connor

It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'

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.

Kaskade

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

Bradley Chicho

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Jim McFarland

We're still not expanding in the right areas, ... We have a waiting list for nursing and we talk about expanding in other areas.

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Cathy Merlino

The truth is, we don't know what the future holds for us. The season is just getting under way, so we are expanding our hours to accommodate what we hope will be increased activity.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Bill Gross

What we're doing is kind of expanding upon the neighbor concept.

Zac Efron

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

William E. Conway, Jr.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

William Stone

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Zubin Mehta

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

Edward Snowden

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

David Bailey

When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

Alan Levenson

The overall affordability of a home is still ample,

Bobby Jindal

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Alan Cohen

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Alan Cohen

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Bill Owens

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

Robin S. Sharma

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Dominic Cooper

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Steve Case

When I saw it, I really thought it could be more of a lifestyle brand, much like Nike.

Olivia Toca

The quality of work is twice as good. The baseboards remind me of the old baseboards my mother had. In general, the lifestyle here is just much better.

Demi Lovato

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Martin Scorsese

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

Chris Evans

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Lydia Lenker

We don't promote one lifestyle over another. It's really pretty simple reasoning.

Jacqueline McKenzie

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid.

Asif Kapadia

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

Miuccia Prada

So there are prints that look kind of geometric, but it's kind of a diamond, computerized tone ... with shades that look like light,

Joan Rankin

It was a joy-of-celebration piece, and the first time I put it out at a show, it sold, ... I never had any prints made.

Ludwig von Mises

The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

Paula Beall

We were just enthralled by the quality of the space that we could see through the storefront windows,

Norman Edelman

The quality of the institution was getting better. The scandal will set it back. This is the tragedy.

Charles McClelland

The quality of play is much improved." ()

Charles W. Pickering

The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles Dickens

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

Alan Chadwick

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

Akio Morita

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

Camille Paglia

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Jaromir Jagr

We didn't respond to the stuff they played. We weren't smart enough.

Skip Prosser

We didn't respond back. We had a run to start the half, they had a run back, and it was up to us to make a run back at them. We didn't have the wherewithal to do that.

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

E. B. White

We will respond when we have seen the revised toll offer.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Jeb Bush

We've got a response team that is second to none, ... We will get through this storm and respond quickly.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Mark Hatton

We play as well defensively as any team I have seen in this section in a long, long time.

John Roberts

When we go to a restaurant, they don't ask, 'Do you want the asbestos section or the non-asbestos section?' They do ask, 'Do you want smoking or nonsmoking?'

Jeff Ackermann

We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal.

Richard Morris

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

Mark Johnson

We want to win every game, and Section V.

Pu Zhiqiang

This section is the most important part of the paper.

Rick LaFerriere

Our section should do very well in the WPIAL. And at the state level, our section could have two or three state champions.

Jordan Lawley

I feel like everything after sections was just extra.

Patrick Carney

There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Charles Wagner

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Alan Watts

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Alan Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit...

Carl Jung

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

William Shakespeare

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Deepak Chopra

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Tommy Lee Jones

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

Sue Monk Kidd

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Alan Cohen

I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

Alan Cohen

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Alan Cohen

When faced with demanding situations, can you keep your heart as light as a feather? Can you laugh your way through challenges and maintain an attitude freer than fear? When confronted with upsets and the poisonous projections of others, can you remember that all is well? Do you know that you are a spiritual being, not subject to the whims and caprices of earthly tides?

Alan Cohen

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

Alan Cohen

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Alan Cohen

The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit.

Alan Cohen

The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

Lenny Kravitz

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

Suzanne Vega

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

OMI

The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

Charlie Skelton

The story is timeless and can be done in any era.

Rich Mullins

Save me from trendy religion that makes cheap clichés out of timeless truths.

Steve Brown

I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Melanie Fiona

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Helmut Jahn

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Mahatma Gandhi

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

George Osborne

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

Alan Cohen

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

Walter Benjamin

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

Walter Benjamin

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

Maurice Maeterlinck

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Alan Parker

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

David Suzuki

The event of creation did not take place so many eons ago, astronomically or biologically speaking. Creation is taking place every moment of our lives.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Bill Johnson

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

Edward Hopper

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

James Garner

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

Nikos Kazantzakis

No wide road leads to God.

John Hawkes

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

Henry Mason

Most wide receivers are 400-plus. If he could ever get to that point, you've got to think he would be faster.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas

John McCarthy

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.