Famous Quotes & Sayings

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Ellen Key

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Erin Karpluk

Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.

Jeffrey Passel

The overall picture is that of young, working families coming to the U.S. to participate in the labor market.

Joe Mullen

(The penalty kill) been huge for us. The guys have been coming up so big, especially on the 5-on-3 (opportunities).

Bryan Cogman

Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.

Brendan Fletcher

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

Denis Villeneuve

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

Will Yun Lee

Whenever you're fighting with weapons, there's a level of reality because people don't understand that these are still metal or hard rubber with sharp points - that if the timing's wrong, you could definitely get hurt. There's nothing like working with an actor who doesn't know what they're doing, because you're always in fear of losing an eye.

Will Champlin

I'm definitely a fighter, like Christina Aguilera would say.

Billy Graham

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Emma Roberts

New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.

Ben Affleck

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

Helane Becker

The pilots definitely have the power in this relationship. If they don't want to fly, you don't fly.

Patrick Callahan

The pendulum is definitely returning and has been for a year.

Mike Connors

The penalty is definitely one that fits the crime.

Common

Playing basketball is definitely one of my favorite things to do.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Bill Baker

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.

Deke Richards

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

Gary Enis

We had opportunities tonight to make plays, make pitches, and get hits. They just got more timely hits than we did.

Tom Kelly

Yeah, we hollered at him. 'Stay on the ball! Stay on the ball!' Now he stands right in there and hits it that way nine miles and hits it this way nine miles.

Huey Lewis

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.

Mike Hargrove

We had nine hits and scored three runs. Sometimes you don't get the hits when you need them.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations you have to come through. Because two-out hits are pretty clutch.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Kathleen Mitchell

He had to come here while negotiations were ongoing. The Hudson was the jugular vein of the Revolution,

Richard Doherty

It's mostly for the Hudson Valley to work on these new developments.

John Cahill

You wouldn't even think of swimming in the Hudson 20 years ago,

Jerry Narron

I've seen Tim Hudson since '99 and I thought Holby might need another day. If Ramirez had been pitching, he would have been in there.

Robert Osborne

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Nicole Scherzinger

I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

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.

Alexander Mackenzie

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

Yan Xiaohong

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

David Bositis

For a big portion of the African-Americans, there's not better education.

Tim Thomas

I don't want to say there's not a problem with that (waivers) portion of the CBA just because I made it through.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Jim Barnes

A small portion of several things is probably better for you than a big portion of one thing because you get a wider variety of nutrients.

John Limberopoulos

They're smaller portions of things that are already on our menu.

Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Ross Siragusa

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

Ralph Carter

When I got into Irving's, ... everyone was talking about it.

Ken Lucas

We're kind of low-key. We don't like a lot of attention. Keep talking about the other teams, and we'll just come out and do our job.

Karen Finney

We're doing the work, we're not just talking about it.

Kyle Brown

Typically speaking, we're probably talking about around $100,000 for everything.

Joe Torre

You know we're capable. It's always talking about the thumpers and all of the big things we can do.

J. J. Johnson

We got to talking, and he got talking about his case.

Zulima Farber

We're not talking years -- we're talking weeks or months, not years.

Bob Duncan

We're not talking about tens of thousands, but it's significant.

Mack Brown

We're not talking about starters, because we're going to need all of those guys.

Terry Pratchett

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Moby

Traffic terrifies me.

Jim Struzzi

Fortunately, traffic was stopped, so no one was injured.

Dick Martin

It's not like there are wrecks or anything like that. It's just that the traffic is not moving.

Bob Campbell

(Developers) don't see the traffic because it's not there yet. But it will be.

Ryan Seacrest

What it allows me to do is . . . be the traffic cop.

John Cobb

We want to impede traffic as little as possible.

David Williams

Right now we have to do this for our residents and we have to do something to alleviate these traffic concerns.

Paul Morris

Right now, the traffic is all very democratic, ... You want to be able to prioritize.

Bill Gates

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

Heber J. Grant

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

Bill Gurley

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,

Kacey Musgraves

Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.

J. R. R. Tolkien

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell

Isaac Marion

I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

Isabelle Huppert

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

Helen Keller

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Chris Hughes

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.