Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Adams

There is in the Congress a collection of the greatest men upon this continent in point of abilities, virtues, and fortunes

Lisa Marie Presley

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.

John Ugolini

The idea itself is a lot of fun. We have energetic, fun, eclectic bands.

Billy Bob Thornton

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

Billy Bob Thornton

I've led a very eclectic life.

David Baldwin

Somehow, during reviews of us, the Smiths always come up and we can't quite place it. We grew up listening to the Smiths, but never thought we sounded like that. We have an eclectic mix of influences and hopefully that shows.

Matt Passmore

It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every time. It's just an absurd, eclectic place, and the stories that can come out of that place just never stop.

Jack Falahee

Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

Michael Dunne

Jerry Garcia has an eclectic style, ... It's pretty abstract. Bright. Colorful.

Paul Simpson

Historically, there has always been a lot of people in Champaign-Urbana that have the wherewithal to travel and experience food and wine from all over the United States and all over the world. There is a worldly, eclectic view when it comes to food and wine in this community.

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?

Chino Moreno

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.

Chino Moreno

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

Eve Ensler

I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.

Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Bill Hader

I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.

Eric Andre

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Damien Chazelle

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

Sevyn Streeter

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church.

Zac Efron

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

William Shatner

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

Will Chase

I would love to do a political drama. I'm a 'West Wing' fanatic.

Ville Valo

I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

Billy Graham

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

Billy Graham

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Chet Faker

When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.

Chet Faker

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Bonnie Tyler

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

Vidya Balan

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

Walter Lippmann

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Lauren Lapkus

I'm more of a tomboy - I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure - but I have a girlie side to me.

Missy Elliott

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans.

John Hendricks

We got to get things going on the other side of the ball.

Henry Markram

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

Twyla Tharp

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

Charles Long

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Dear Abbey

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

Charlotte Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Camille Paglia

Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

Beverly Cleary

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

Deborah Moggach

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

Deborah Moggach

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

Anton Chekhov

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

bell hooks

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

Dan Wakefield

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

George Herbert

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

Baltasar Gracian

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Michael Chang

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

Oscar Wilde

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Lawrence Welk

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

Gregg Bishop

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

Lars Mikkelsen

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.