Nigel Rees Quotes
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.Nigel Rees
Quotes to Explore
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
Larry Hovis -
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
Jack Bruce Cream -
Everything I do now is a first.
Hailee Steinfeld -
You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
J. K. Simmons -
I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
Abigail Washburn -
I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
Rachael Harris
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
Pankaj Mishra -
I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
Ina May Gaskin -
I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
Olivier Theyskens -
I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
Nate Diaz -
I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
Kate Micucci -
I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
Sadhu Vaswani -
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Vernon Jordan -
I don't even sing in the shower.
Lara Stone -
There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
Caitlyn Jenner -
It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.
Calvin Coolidge -
Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
Wallace Stevens
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This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
Betty White -
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
Aristotle -
Our small businesses are the largest source of job creation in our country. I am honored to join the incredibly impressive economic team that President-elect Trump has assembled to ensure that we promote our country’s small businesses and help them grow and thrive.
Linda McMahon -
If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.
Ken Liu -
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
Nigel Rees