Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwen Stefani

I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, 'What?'

Kent Haruf

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

Tyler Cowen

For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.

Dominick Dunne

She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine. I always think of her sitting in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel, holding court, saying hello to people, being funny.

Jill Soloway

On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir.

Ken Bernstein

Obviously, this is a significant loss to the musical legacy of our nation and the history of Beverly Hills and its role in shaping American culture. Despite repeated pleas from local residents, Beverly Hills still has no mechanism to protect its historic and cultural treasures.

Mark Burnett

I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

Bobby Keys

When you're not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you're only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you.

Floyd Skloot

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

Sue Monk Kidd

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

David Beckham

One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn't go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention,

Bryan Greenberg

'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.

Wolfman Jack

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

Chuck Granby

To win the championship you have to go through Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've been coaching 37 years and only eight times has a team outside of those boroughs won.

Arthur Schwartz

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Richard Parsons

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

Tim White

We estimate that the ... remediation at our property at Third St. and Third Ave. in Brooklyn is about 75%-80% completed at this point.

Wynter Gordon

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

Martin Freeman

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

Sharon Stone

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Tom Guiry

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

Tobias Menzies

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Elizabeth Peyton

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Cameron Russell

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Keri Hilson

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Tom Shannon

With this process improvement, ProFlu-1 is now sufficiently streamlined that it can be effectively used in the highest throughput labs, ... In the first week after release, we have shipped ProFlu-1 to several of the largest and most prestigious US labs.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Kiesza

I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.

Sen. Constantine

People will be more likely to feel comfortable that they have been well represented. It's the right time, especially with all the hurricanes, all the rate hike requests.

Terry Jones

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

Robert Philips

The overriding issue is are we going to get one more rate hike or several.

Marc Pado

We're not going to feel the impact of these rate hikes for quite some time.

Mike Malpede

The rate hike was widely expected, so it's been discounted.

Aaron Robinson

We'll find 'em, ... They're in this drainage somewhere. We might have to hike our a's off, but we'll find 'em.

Ram Bhagavatula

We look for a hike at every meeting next year.

Don Winslow

I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

Jim Erickson

With the rovers we've actually been able to go look and pick the things we wanted to see whether it was up on top of hills or whether it was down inside the craters, you name it.

John Lieswyn

Make no mistake. These are the steepest hills that we race in America.

Barbara Mikulski

Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.

Alexandre Aja

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

Steven Squyres

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

Joanie Madden

I was looking at the last pictures I took, which was the hills of New Zealand and it just rolled out of me.

Cynthia Lowery

He had been with Wood-land Hills a long time.

Trey Clark

He had a big tractor tire that he liked to jump in and roll down hills in.

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

John Ellinger

The positives are, there is a team in Salt Lake City. And the fans; we've been received.

Cory Jacobs

We are proud of what we've done because nobody has done what we've done at Lake Fenton for a long time.

Rudy Cruz

We're seeing moderate snowfall up in the Lake Tahoe area.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Paul Reid

We're going to find out a lot this week. Houghton Lake plays Clare, so we'll know more after Friday's games.

Carol Leifer

Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

Carol Shields

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

Carlos Castaneda

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the day. Around six in the morning the shadows wake up, and they are best around five in the afternoon. Then they are fully awake.

Carl Bernstein

June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

C. S. Lewis

I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.

Aaron Sorkin

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

Alan Turing

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.

Alan Turing

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

Alan Shepard

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Rivers Cuomo

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

Theodor Mommsen

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Mack Brown

We did not have to show very much from a scheme point of view, ... and that's what we wanted.

Vicki Coleman

We'd give up three points and then we'd run three and then we'd run three and give up three. It went back-and-forth the whole way.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Edgar Allan Poe

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Ben Horowitz

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Alicia Keys

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

Teemu Selanne

The silver medal, it's going to taste better a little later. But right now, it's very disappointing.

Rick Pitino

This is the most disappointing preseason I've experienced in a long time. We'll look for the silver lining, and when I can find it, I'll let everyone know.

Michael Guido

There's a lot of inflow into silver in anticipation of the ETF.

Rich Beem

The thing is a rocket. It's a silver bullet.

J. K. Rowling

There's the silver lining I'm looking for.

Jerry Garcia

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Jane Smiley

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Jack Jones

We are taking steps one at a time.

Brian Johnson

Let the results be a by-product of you taking impeccable steps day-in and day-out.

Boz Scaggs

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

Carol Vorderman

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

Agnes Repplier

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Charles Dickens

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

Brian Clough

You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.

Dave Barry

You're not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You're not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don't know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government!

Alanis Morissette

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Alan Bennett

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Al Pacino

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.