Pretty Quotes
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I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.
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I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England. They are always putting you in your place in one way or another, and there is this pretty rigid class hierarchy.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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People are pretty respectful for the most part.
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The richest people are those who have life arranged so they have food for the family and the rent or mortgage paid. After that, at least in my case, it can become a pretty boring existence if wealth is the only objective.
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I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
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It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
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Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
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I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
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A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.
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Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.
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I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!
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People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.
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One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
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Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.
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Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
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I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.
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You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.
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I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.
