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 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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
I'm really focused on getting better as a player.
Kristaps Porzingis -
From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.
James Forrestal
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
Emily Ratajkowski -
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
Patrick Warburton -
I'm a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination, it would've been great. The Beatles changed everything for me, and I wanted to be a journalist for 'Rolling Stone.' I'm a big music fan in a Cameron Crowe way, kind of in a spectator way.
Emma Stone -
A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.
David Muir -
Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.
Charles Giancarlo -
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