Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Moscowitz

She's very distressed to see her reputation taken away.

Anthony Horowitz

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Wilbur Ross

We are looking at many of these distressed (auto parts companies) that have some kind of proprietary technology and some scale of size.

Mark Latham

Greg had a marriage break-up and some troubles, an incident that was made public and was in a very distressed state, suffering depression,

Peter Gardner

I would be a little distressed should it be only one. I think...the world's operators are going to probably persuade Boeing that more than one is better. Whether three is required, I'm not sure.

Sufjan Stevens

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.

Sharon Stone

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Lekan Oguntoyinbo

We are naturally distressed that the numbers turned out the way they did, but we are not discouraged.

David Byrne

The operators are not button-pushers, ... It's a give and take with the performers. In my work, technology is a performer.

Jonathan Adelstein

I was stunned by the scope. The public has a right to know who is trying to persuade them.

Action Bronson

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

Holliday Grainger

I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Geoffrey Robertson

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,

David Horowitz

I would not be here if I weren't persuaded by 20 years of walking around campuses and seeing this.

Paul Vincent

Is there anything the magistrates can do to persuade you to pay?

John Reed

I'm persuaded it can work. Our sense is it's well worth doing,

Mark Jacobs

They persuaded me to give it a shot.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.