Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tove Lo

It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

Reggie Watts

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Lazarus Long

Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Dambisa Moyo

China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

Cheryl Hines

I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

Chuck Palahniuk

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.

Ed Oxenbould

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

Jim Daugherty

We want to raise money to buy a thermal imaging camera.

Roger Price

We have seen a spike in interest in E85. Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Roger Price

We have seen a spike in interest in E85, ... Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though.

Donatella Girombelli

We have to give modern women the possibility to choose, because now the moment of choice is like an investment. Women want to buy something not for one week, for one moment. She would like to have something that she can have for a long time.

Don Cassidy

Whenever you buy any kind of sector, you have to have the stomach for higher volatility.

Carlos Slim

When everybody else is better off, they can buy more, they strengthen demand, strengthen the market, strengthen the country.

Tom Schroder

We want our guests to buy tickets online. That way, we know they're coming, and it helps our guests plan their day.

Janie Rude

We wanted treatment for our mother, and there's so much expense involved when you get cancer, from the medicines to having to buy wigs when they lose their hair.

Mark Evans

We have a window where we want to buy land on the south side of Kellogg. We want to have a contract within the new few months.

Doug Bruno

She knows when to hold 'em, she knows when to fold 'em. She knows when to walk away. ... I just love how she's playing the game very simply and that's a total compliment.

Graham Taylor

Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.

Bill Gates

Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.

Rob Streeter

Give Carson credit. Their kids didn't fold down the stretch when they got behind. Their kids responded.

Ned Colletti

Without that we would have had a real tough time folding him in. Their willingness to work with us was the key to getting it done.

Constance Wu

When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

Source Unknown

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

Barbara Ryan

Three months ago, Wall Street was telling Pfizer to fold up its tent and go home. Now some of the things we've been waiting for are coming.

Lori Anderson

I thought, considering we only have two returners from last season (Kari Rodgers and Cassie Sowers), they really stepped up and didn't fold under pressure, ... That says a lot for the girls who are young and don't have much experience.

Gordon Campbell

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

Lynsey Addario

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

William Cowper

Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are.

Rep. Harper

What should the tax policy be for the state of Utah in conjunction with sales tax? Sales tax is a state tax and it should be imposed and managed by the state.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Bubba Watson

It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

Graham Moore

When I first starting writing, and no one was paying me, in order to feel like I had a real job, I would get out of bed, put on a jacket and tie every morning, and sit down at my desk.

Sarah Hill

I wear my jacket pretty much all day. A lot of people are.

Don Johnson

I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

Kristine Fauerbach

You'll see some suede and leather jackets out there, but the linings are silk. Everything is about silk.

Anna Torv

I am a sucker for jackets!

Laura Seeger

It's going to be strange walking in in my purple jacket and sitting on the other side of the floor. It will be weird.

Karl Lagerfeld

This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.

John Carpenter

A life jacket will at least keep you floating.

Joseph O'Neill

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

George Herbert

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Jay Baruchel

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

Isak Dinesen

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

William Banting

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.