Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Donatella Versace

I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

Bikram Choudhury

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

Woody Harrelson

It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Red Adair

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

Ray Charles

People couldn't understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain't stupid.

Naomi Watts

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

Randy Lambert

Bo just shot the dickens out of it.

George Saintsbury

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

Simon Schama

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.

Douglas Adams

One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.

Jim Crace

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Claire Tomalin

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.

Dazzy Vance

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

Goldwin Smith

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Claire Tomalin

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Brent Barry

If you win 50 or more games, ... you should only have to play two exhibitions. Forty to 49, you play three; 30 to 39, you play five; and under 30 you play eight. That way, the teams that really need the work will play more games.

Bible Bible

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

James A. Michener

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.

Joe Thornton

We've been trying to set a tone for last forty games. We've been hunting teams down the last forty games. We know what is at stake. We have to win every game to be in the playoffs. Really, every game has been a playoff game for us for so long, and we've been playing real well lately.

Kenneth Tynan

Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

William Shakespeare

Forty thousand brothersCould not, with all their quantity of love,Make up my sum.

Skip Rimer

Forty is not bad. It means you are still growing.

Dick Hill

It's about the camaraderie. Not all go in every year. If it was 0 degrees, I wouldn't go in. Forty degrees, that's fine.

Jennifer Aniston

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Evangeline Lilly

Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

Elaine Stritch

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

Eartha Kitt

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

Chelsea Clinton

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

Shannon McSweeney

The pipe is hard as a rock. They were able to practice on it (Wednesday) even after all the rain.

Dallas Roberts

When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'

Don Green

We plan on doing some work to it this year. We're here to see what we can see. There are a lot of possibilities. I imagine a lot of people are planning to spend a lot of their income tax returns on their homes.

Cathy Guisewite

I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

Lilla Crawford

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

Mike Wallace

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.

Blake Mycoskie

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Tom Grassa

We needed this win. Can you imagine if we lost tonight, then lost to Peabody on Sunday and had a 5-game losing streak going into the tournament?

John Bell

We get some resistance to rentals because Longfellow residents can't imagine who would want to come into this neighborhood to rent,

Joan Ark

You'd never imagine how many people listen to Howard Stern that you'd never expect.

Bob Gibbs

We plan on having a meeting next week with the appropriate people. The problems with the project should be ended.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.

Benazir Bhutto

Today's meeting was one of the first steps to our return.

Buck Showalter

You know how there's talk every year about the winter meetings and then people come away disappointed because not much happened? I think this is going to be the year to make all of those people happy.

William Poole

Unlike the situation a year ago...at this point I very much go meeting by meeting by meeting.

Jacques Rogge

Well done and thank you. You have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games.

Gary Parker

Those kind of things, it takes obviously some meeting of the minds. There are considerations they have. There are considerations we have.

Niklas Zennstroem

We had meetings with a lot of companies. We met with News Corp, yes.

Cilla Black

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

will.i.am

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

Kayla Ewell

I'm sort of a gym buff. It's a stress relief for me. But I only go for 20 minutes at a time.

Camille Paglia

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

Steve Nash

I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.

Banksy

In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

Sebastien Caron

We played well in the first period and first 10 minutes of the second. But it's tough to explain. We really work hard, give 100%. I just don't know.

Alex Brink

We just didn't play 60 minutes of football, or 65 minutes, of football, or whatever it was.

Keyon Dooling

We need to take this momentum and roll it over like cell-phone minutes next season.

John Hawkins

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Todd Borrison

We pretty much do it (full-court press) 24-7. That's how we practice our game.

Ian Rutledge

We practice them, but you can't practice pressure. That's the difference.

Mike Mularkey

We practice probably more than most teams on our special teams and it shows up on the field. And we do a lot more in the spring with our guys, fundamentals and techniques, and it shows up on the field.

Matt Light

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

Walter Benjamin

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Dan Miller

We have a lot of cheerleaders who come because they can better their routines with the practice they get here with the classes.

Rick Clark

We need to have some time to get some practice in now. We need to get a little rest and work on our timing.

E. F. Schumacher

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Ansel Elgort

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

Ashley Giles

When you're seven wickets down, all sorts of things go through your head,

Brendan Gleeson

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

Jerious Norwood

When I first got here, I took something like seven tests.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

Jamie Woodruff

We had her for seven years until she got sick and we had to put her down, that was just in December.

Chris Palacios

The prelims went really well for me. I was kind of surprised at how well everything went. I was seeded seventh in the 50 free, which is just one spot out of the finals. Actually now I'm seeded third for the finals, which is good. I was seeded 11th in the 100 and now I'm fifth.

Denis Leary

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

David Crystal

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Catherine Hardwicke

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Steven Blum

You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

H. Jon Benjamin

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.