Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gedde Watanabe

Sixteen Candles was my first film. I was 28 years old studying Shakespeare in New York, and it just freaked me out that this thing got so well known.

Susan Isaacs

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.

Bobby Lee

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Wilferd Peterson

While there is life there is hope, has deeper meaning in reverse. While there is hope there is life. Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on. Hope sees a light where there isn't any. Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts. Where would I be without hope?

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

King Tuff

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.

Keith Richard

There is no clear plan until the music is telling you what to do. It yelled at us, 'Do not overproduce me. Do not put the icing and the marzipan and the candles on.'

John Scalzi

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Adlai E. Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Shamir

My friends freaked out when I posted 'I'll Never Be Able To Love' on Facebook.

Geoff Johns

One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have 'Smallville' on television and 'Superman Returns' come out in the theater, and it was fine. Nobody freaked out; nobody thought they were competing.

Aimee Mullins

'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'

Lucy Hale

I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

Sofia Vassilieva

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch.

Reggie Lee

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

Shellie Samuels

He shot people on TV, he shot people in the movies, but he never really shot people in real life, ... It freaked him out.

Evan Savoie

I got up and I was freaked out, so we started running. I was just paranoid and scared.

Penny Gienger

We freaked out. We knew they were going to pressure. ... We just weren't ready.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Alan Arkin

Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.

John Clare

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Victor Hugo

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

David Levithan

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

Hunter Parrish

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

John Huber

I get to make my own schedule, and I get a lot of studying done.

Nipsey Russell

He was always reading, always studying and was very, very quiet. He had a photographic memory.

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Dan Brown

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Lance Reddick

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.