Quotes and Sayings about Pretty
"Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists."
- Paula Abdul
(Related: Artists, Jobs, Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking."
- F. Murray Abraham
(Related: Love, War, Idea, Israel, Pretty, Thinking, World)
"Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most."
- Dan Abrams
(Related: Arguments, Court, Decisions, Pretty)
"I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever."
- Amy Adams
(Related: Quality, People, Forget, Pretty, Revenge)
"Everybody knew that I could type pretty well."
- Jack Adams
(Related: Pretty)
"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poets, Pretty)
"Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."
- Robert Adamson
(Related: Poetry, Books, Living, Pretty, Writing)
"I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good."
- Hasil Adkins
(Related: People, Pretty, Songs, Trying)
"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."
- Ben Affleck
(Related: Body, Ladies, Man, Now, Popular, Pretty, Thinking)
"It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie."
- Andre Agassi
(Related: Day, End, Pretty)
"Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Boyfriend, Career, Now, Pretty, Right)
"I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'"
- Malin Akerman
(Related: Girls, Pretty, Want)
"We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it."
- Gary Allan
(Related: Pretty)
"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."
- Rick Allen
(Related: Accident, Interest, Irony, Pretty)
"In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Pretty)
"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Love, Experience, Sex, Pretty)
"I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Music, Idea, Pretty, Want, Years)
"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
- Mose Allison
(Related: Pretty)
"You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it."
- Gregg Allman
(Related: Love, Movies, Pretty)
"Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now."
- Chris Van Allsburg
(Related: Change, Formula, Now, Pretty, Reason)
"People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy."
- Summer Altice
(Related: Life, People, Jealousy, Pretty)
"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Women, Pretty)
"I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often."
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(Related: Time, Pretty, Will)
"Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas."
- John Anderson
(Related: People, Policy, Ideas, End, Pretty)
"I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Pretty)
"I am pretty self-indulgent."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Pretty, Self)
"I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding."
- Nicole Appleton
(Related: Wedding, Beach, Pretty, Want)
"I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Fact, Film, Pretty)
"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish."
- Dick Armey
(Related: Party, Pretty)
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Earth, Eye, Pretty)
"My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America."
- Desi Arnaz
(Related: America, Pretty, Temper)
"There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful."
- Will Arnett
(Related: People, Lying, Pretty)
"Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters."
- Will Arnett
(Related: Pretty)
"Touring is really a pretty lonely business."
- Eddy Arnold
(Related: Business, Lonely, Pretty)
"At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Business, Love, Travel, American, Pretty)
"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."
- Shawn Ashmore
(Related: Job, Play, Pretty)
"I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around."
- John Astin
(Related: Fun, Pretty)
"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known."
- Robert Atkins
(Related: Body, Energy, Pretty, Will)
"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Men, Women, Fortune, Pretty, World)
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
- Jane Austen
(Related: Beauty, Life, Delight, First, Pretty, Years)
"Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done."
- J. L. Austin
(Related: History, Pretty, Word)
"There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists."
- Sherman Austin
(Related: Internet, Pretty)
"That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think."
- Sebastian Bach
(Related: People, Pretty)
"To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know."
- Sebastian Bach
(Related: Pretty, Songs)
"When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want."
- Randy Bachman
(Related: Successful, Pretty, Want)
"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Movies, Actor, Fun, Hiring, Pretty, Talk, Want)
"A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week."
- Adam Baldwin
(Related: Time, Pretty, Television)
"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good."
- Steve Ballmer
(Related: Pretty, Profit, Years)
"I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking."
- Steve Ballmer
(Related: People, Company, Information, Pretty, Thinking)
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Time, HusbDay, Pretty, Reason, Witty)
"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
- Lester Bangs
(Related: Pretty, Reason, Rebellion)
"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down."
- Lester Bangs
(Related: Society, People, Feeling, Pretty, Running, Sense)
"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Pretty)
"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Children, Now, Parents, Pretty)
"I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Age, Health, Poor, Pretty)
"They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Country, Europe, Killing, Laws, Pretty, World)
"I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them."
- Roseanne Barr
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
- Roland Barthes
(Related: Life, Fun, Pretty)
"Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'"
- Mischa Barton
(Related: People, Pretty, Problems)
"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
(Related: Art, Government, Education, People, Country, Pretty)
"I would have to say honestly I was very pleased to be in a film whether it was good or bad with De Niro, Norton and Brando even if I don't have any scenes with them, I thought it was pretty good company to keep."
- Angela Bassett
(Related: Thought, Company, Film, Pretty)
"Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong."
- Jason Bateman
(Related: End, Pretty, Will)
"The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Trust, Fact, Pretty, Security, Today, Will)
"It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Pretty, Result, Right)
"Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Education, Quality, Children, Constitution, Nation, Pretty)
"I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Actor, Being, Intention, Pretty)
"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point."
- Sean Bean
(Related: Time, Act, Man, Mind, Play, Pretty)
"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: Fighting, Karate, Pretty, Years)
"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
- Alison Bechdel
(Related: History, Pretty)
"I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years."
- Beck
(Related: Pretty, Sound, Years)
"And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: God, Peace, Being, Nothing, Order, Pretty, Problems, Self, Will)
"I feel pretty confident in my own ability."
- Gerry Beckley
(Related: Ability, Pretty)
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Love, Heart, Deep, Light, Pretty)
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: Pretty, Shakespeare)
"The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Business, Being, Pretty, Woman)
"I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!"
- Catherine Bell
(Related: People, Character, Girls, Kids, Letters, Pretty, Teenagers, Want)
"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are."
- Charlie Bell
(Related: Pretty)
"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."
- E. T. Bell
(Related: Doubt, Pretty, Pursuit, Quest, Silly, Vice)
"I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Play, Pretty)
"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Heart, Pretty, Right)
"I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Play, Pretty)
"I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Time, Heart, Pretty, Right)
"Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: History, Work, Thought, Being, Cinema, Content, Film, Pretty)
"Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film."
- Peter Berg
(Related: Truth, America, Film, Pretty, Voting)
"By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life."
- Michael Bergin
(Related: Life, Sports, Time, Old, Pretty, Years)
"We're all pretty ordinary on paper."
- Michael Bergin
(Related: Pretty)
"It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future."
- John Desmond Bernal
(Related: Thought, Future, Past, Present, Pretty, Will)
"They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Thought, Fun, Play, Pretty)
"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it."
- Yogi Berra
(Related: Pretty)
"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
- Jeff Bezos
(Related: Gold, Innovation, Now, Pretty, Questions, Right)
"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."
- Jello Biafra
(Related: Pretty)
"The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy."
- Justin Bieber
(Related: Building, Germany, Girls, Night, Pretty)
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Heaven, Lies, Lying, Pretty, World)
"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: College, Environment, Friends, Pretty)
"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Pretty)
"Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary."
- Jason Biggs
(Related: Sex, Being, Pretty)
"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Money, Pretty, Will)
"I think I am pretty much melancholic."
- Juliette Binoche
(Related: Pretty)
"And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now."
- Brad Bird
(Related: Culture, Now, Popular, Pretty, Right)
"I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that."
- Jimmy Carl Black
(Related: Wife, Career, First, Kids, Pretty)
"I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Government, Life, Earth, Favorite, Nothing, President, Pretty, Will)
"Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Work, Americans, Tax, Obvious, Play, Pretty, Republicans)
"I criticize my own work pretty harshly."
- Ritchie Blackmore
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"Interviewing people is pretty natural for me."
- Nina Blackwood
(Related: People, Pretty)
"People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Time, People, Information, Internet, Opinions, Pretty)
"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models."
- Ruben Blades
(Related: Music, Dancing, Pretty, Sound)
"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."
- Ruben Blades
(Related: Crowds, Pretty, Respect, Sense)
"Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder."
- Steve Blake
(Related: People, Disorder, Hatred, Pretty, Race, Today)
"When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Electricity, Help, Pretty, Running, Water)
"Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding."
- Wolf Blitzer
(Related: Pretty, Race)
"When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did."
- Dave Blood
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept."
- Orlando Bloom
(Related: Pretty)
"It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress."
- John Boehner
(Related: People, American, Congress, Economy, Job, Jobs, Months, President, Pretty, Question, Reason)
"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."
- Peter Bogdanovich
(Related: Movies, People, Film, Grammar, Pretty, Sense)
"Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself."
- Eric Bogosian
(Related: Pretty, Self)
"The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so."
- Tommy Bond
(Related: Play, Pretty)
"I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound."
- Bobby Bonilla
(Related: Pretty)
"This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!"
- Bobby Bonilla
(Related: Work, Being, Pretty, Want, World)
"The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged."
- Sean Booth
(Related: Heart, Danger, Disease, Internet, Pretty)
"I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own."
- Matthew Bourne
(Related: Life, Thought, Pretty)
"It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward."
- Caprice Bourret
(Related: Business, Day, Europe, Night, Pretty)
"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people."
- David Bowie
(Related: Work, People, Pretty, Thinking)
"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."
- Arthur Boyd
(Related: Pretty)
"You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that."
- Lara Flynn Boyle
(Related: People, Day, Lying, Pretty, Will)
"I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school."
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Children, Disaster, End, Pretty, School)
"However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!"
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Hope, Accomplishments, Actor, Pretty)
"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Battle, Now, Pretty, Years)
"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
- David Brinkley
(Related: Being, Pretty)
"I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present."
- David R. Brower
(Related: Countries, Earth, Friends, Present, Pretty)
"It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also."
- Clancy Brown
(Related: Life, Father, Son, Comfort, Confidence, Frustration, Pretty)
"As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying."
- David M. Brown
(Related: Medical, Flying, Pretty, Saying, World)
"Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Pretty)
"You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(Related: Man, Pretty)
"Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano."
- Jackson Browne
(Related: Dad, Guitar, Now, Play, Pretty, Study)
"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."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
- Gavin Bryars
(Related: Time, American, Composers, France, Pretty)
"Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with."
- Peter Buck
(Related: People, Fans, Mind, Pretty)
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Ignorance, Pretty, Results)
"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast."
- Julie Burchill
(Related: Pretty)
"Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: People, Advertising, Pretty)
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
- Augusten Burroughs
(Related: Advertising, Pretty, Years)
"I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status."
- Sophia Bush
(Related: Intelligence, Pretty, Respect)
"I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal."
- Dan Butler
(Related: Business, People, Control, Pretty)
"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Father, Thought, Dumb, Pretty, Years)
"I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure."
- Yancy Butler
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky."
- Amanda Bynes
(Related: Pretty, Want)
"I'm so protected in my Nickelodeon bubble and "What I Like About You." It's all pretty much the same people I've worked with and it was pretty protected."
- Amanda Bynes
(Related: People, Pretty)
"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."
- Gabriel Byrne
(Related: Pretty, Reality)
"I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about."
- James Caan
(Related: Religion, Pretty, Santa claus)
"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
- John Cale
(Related: Experience, Religion, Growing up, Pretty)
"Wit doesn't make girls pretty."
- Jeanne Calment
(Related: Girls, Pretty, Wit)
"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them."
- Trishelle Cannatella
(Related: Film, Horror, Meeting, Now, Pretty, Reading, Right, Television, Yesterday)
"We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Food, Pretty)
"McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Being, Old, Pretty, Sales, Years)
"But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Time, Pretty, World, Years)
"I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl."
- Lizzy Caplan
(Related: Character, Departure, Now, Personality, Pretty)
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
- Truman Capote
(Related: Friendship, Occupation, Pretty)
"With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Country, Energy, Obvious, Pretty, Security, World)
"I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty."
- Vanessa Carlton
(Related: Sex, Effort, Lying, Pretty)
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Kiss, Doubt, Pretty)
"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
- Robert Caro
(Related: Experience, Pretty)
"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."
- Charisma Carpenter
(Related: Chance, Job, Pretty, Sky)
"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
(Related: Pretty, World)
"I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl."
- Allan Carr
(Related: Time, Thought, College, Pretty)
"I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from."
- Caleb Carr
(Related: History, Anger, Focus, Military, Pretty, Trying, Violence)
"You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders."
- Howie Carr
(Related: Law, Pretty, Years)
"It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift."
- David Carradine
(Related: Thought, Day, Girls, Months, Pretty)
"In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way."
- David Carradine
(Related: First, Pretty, Voice)
"People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others."
- John Le Carre
(Related: People, Nothing, Pretty)
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
- John Le Carre
(Related: Age, Pretty)
"At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship."
- Jose Carreras
(Related: First, Now, Pretty)
"Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list."
- Jasper Carrott
(Related: Laughter, Medicine, Pretty)
"My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough."
- Aaron Carter
(Related: Being, Famous, Favorite, Pretty, Road)
"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Funny, Life, Idea, College, Now, Pretty, Silly)
"I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's."
- Steve Case
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that."
- Nick Cassavetes
(Related: Dad, Mom, Work, Actors, Pretty, Project)
"I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things."
- Nick Cave
(Related: Change, Pretty, Song)
"I think I'd be pretty easy to write for."
- Dick Cavett
(Related: Pretty)
"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Time, People, Pretty)
"With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
- Wilt Chamberlain
(Related: Life, Men, Ladies, Pretty, Woman)
"Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool."
- Will Champion
(Related: People, First, Pretty)
"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."
- Raymond Chandler
(Related: Advertising, Country, Mind, Obvious, Pretty)
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Comedy, Pretty)
"The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise."
- Salmon P. Chase
(Related: Pretty)
"When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around."
- Dick Cheney
(Related: Time, Pretty, Vote)
"Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Pretty)
"I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Pretty)
"I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute."
- Kristin Chenoweth
(Related: Thought, People, Being, Cute, Pretty, Want)
"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Brother, Being, Pretty)
"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both."
- Leroy Chiao
(Related: Experience, Work, Hurt, Pretty)
"I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Thought, People, Being, Pretty)
"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Drugs, Liquor, Pretty, Quitting, Years)
"I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Pretty)
"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Winning, Feeling, Pretty)
"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: Funny, Name, Pretty, School)
"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: England, Pretty, Years)
"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
- Diane Cilento
(Related: People, Pretty, Teachers)
"I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags."
- Guy Clark
(Related: Exercise, Pretty, Walking)
"Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player."
- Guy Clark
(Related: Pretty)
"I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome."
- Les Claypool
(Related: Being, Pretty, Want)
"For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it."
- Les Claypool
(Related: Music, Past, Pretty, Years)
"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."
- John Clayton
(Related: Christmas, Holiday, Man, Pretty, Thanksgiving)
"The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well."
- Roger Clemens
(Related: Life, Baseball, Body, Classroom, Pretty, Quick)
"My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things."
- Kate Clinton
(Related: Family, Politics, Religion, Sports, Media, Pretty, Style)
"They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given."
- George Clooney
(Related: Truth, Fault, Pretty, Project, World)
"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."
- Kurt Cobain
(Related: Freedom, Pain, Pretty, Punk, Saying, Suffering, Want, World)
"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else."
- Kurt Cobain
(Related: Life, Complaining, Pretty)
"The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow."
- Lee J. Cobb
(Related: Money, Pretty)
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
- William Cobbett
(Related: Men, Integrity, Opinion, Pretty)
"Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth."
- Jay Cocks
(Related: Truth, Pretty, Yearning)
"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
- J. M. Coetzee
(Related: Idea, Pretty, Today, Writer)
"I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me."
- Paul Coffey
(Related: Time, Career, Pretty, Years)
"I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Pretty, Right, Writing)
"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
- Gary Cole
(Related: Age, Actors, Being, Pretty)
"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
- Gary Cole
(Related: Pretty, School, Television)
"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers."
- Nat King Cole
(Related: Help, Pretty, Wonder)
"I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily."
- Gary Coleman
(Related: People, Forget, Hurt, Pretty, Want)
"And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Life, Idea, Pretty, Want)
"First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: First, Pretty, Trying)
"For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Music, Gain, Pretty, Unity)
"A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men."
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Related: Men, Pretty, Spiders, Terror)
"We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe."
- Phil Collins
(Related: Europe, Pretty)
"When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway."
- Holly Marie Combs
(Related: Mom, Work, First, Months, Night, Now, Old, Pretty, Sleep)
"We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit."
- Jennifer Connelly
(Related: Home, Pretty, Right, Trade, Windows, World)
"In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier."
- Michael Connelly
(Related: Work, Hard work, Mind, Pretty)
"I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: People, Pretty, Want, World)
"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
- Joseph Conrad
(Related: Conquest, Earth, Noses, Pretty)
"My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs."
- Tim Conway
(Related: Career, Eating, Pretty)
"In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak."
- Dane Cook
(Related: Home, Pretty, Quiet, School)
"You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities."
- Rachael Leigh Cook
(Related: People, Flaws, Pretty)
"You know, I'm pretty much an open book."
- Rita Coolidge
(Related: Open, Pretty)
"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."
- Caroline B. Cooney
(Related: Books, Career, Now, Pretty, Voice)
"I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym."
- Gerry Cooney
(Related: Dad, Home, Time, Work, Family, Opportunity, Brothers, Irish, Pretty)
"Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey."
- Anna Julia Cooper
(Related: Heart, Cowards, Instinct, May, Pretty)
"I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me."
- Bradley Cooper
(Related: Wedding, Pretty)
"Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left."
- Chris Cooper
(Related: Politics, Pretty)
"Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down."
- Barry Corbin
(Related: Time, Thought, Job, Pretty, Sense)
"The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world."
- Rob Corddry
(Related: Travel, People, Country, First, Pretty, Talking, World)
"For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Success, Work, Pretty)
"James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Being, Pretty, Saying, World)
"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Life, Adolescence, Pretty, Sense)
"I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that."
- Caroline Corr
(Related: Energy, Pretty)
"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."
- Gregory Corso
(Related: Food, Pretty)
"I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people."
- Kevin Costner
(Related: People, Pretty)
"It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else."
- Marion Cotillard
(Related: Pretty)
"Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Liberal, Pretty)
"Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Dreams, Age, Being, Past, Pretty)
"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Family, People, Pretty)
"Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot."
- David Coverdale
(Related: Women, Pretty)
"It's interesting actually, what's gone on with that footage, and also what happened with the footage from the war in Afghanistan, is that our news reporting is pretty much along the lines of pornography now."
- Alex Cox
(Related: War, Afghanistan, News, Now, Pornography, Pretty)
"A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways."
- Courteney Cox
(Related: Humor, Anger, Pretty)
"Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day."
- Nikki Cox
(Related: Day, Night, Pretty)
"I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: American, English, Irish, London, Now, Pretty)
"When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: First, London, Pretty)
"Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: Time, Pretty, Singing)
"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle."
- Robert Crippen
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Time, Connection, Fans, Mind, Pretty, Question, Writing)
"It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Music, Heart, Difference, Pretty)
"The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: Experience, Pretty, Writing)
"The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman."
- Penelope Cruz
(Related: Career, Pretty, Will, Woman, World)
"Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes."
- Will Cuppy
(Related: People, Beginning, Pretty)
"I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write."
- Catie Curtis
(Related: Pretty, Solitude)
"It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot."
- John Cusack
(Related: Men, Movies, Love, Women, People, Pretty)
"I'm pretty outspoken."
- Miley Cyrus
(Related: Pretty)
"I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah."
- Hugh Dancy
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books."
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Art, Books, Pretty, Sales)
"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor."
- Thayer David
(Related: Actor, Jobs, Pretty)
"I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to."
- Thayer David
(Related: Pretty, Want)
"Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time."
- Robertson Davies
(Related: Time, Old, Pretty, Students, Today)
"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
- Bette Davis
(Related: Hollywood, Pretty, Realism)
"Archers are pretty focused."
- Geena Davis
(Related: Pretty)
"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."
- Mac Davis
(Related: First, Pretty)
"Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word."
- Mac Davis
(Related: God, End, Pretty, Quiet, Song, Word)
"Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it."
- Marc Davis
(Related: Time, Pretty, School, Schools)
"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."
- Clarence Day
(Related: Experience, Information, Pretty)
"I'm pretty much a vegetarian."
- Robin Day
(Related: Pretty)
"My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected."
- Stockwell Day
(Related: Marriage, Wife, Fact, Parents, Pretty)
"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Pretty)
"Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress."
- Sandra Dee
(Related: Dress, Nothing, Pretty, Walking)
"You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?"
- Cat Deeley
(Related: Sex, Pretty, Sense)
"Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me."
- Iris Dement
(Related: American, Fight, Pretty, Sin)
"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: People, Feelings, Pretty)
"I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great."
- Jack Dempsey
(Related: Pretty, Writers)
"My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good."
- Patrick Dempsey
(Related: Kiss, Pretty, Taste)
"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."
- Martin Denny
(Related: Depression, Parents, Pretty, states, United)
"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."
- James Denton
(Related: Home, Wife, Being, Pretty)
"The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny."
- James Denton
(Related: Funny, Women, People, Mystery, Pretty, Will)
"I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room."
- James Denton
(Related: Actors, Pretty, School, Theatre, Training)
"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
- James Denton
(Related: Conservative, Pretty)
"They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page."
- James Denton
(Related: Network, Pretty, Writers)
"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Experience, Time, Being, Hollywood, Pretty)
"Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."
- Johnny Depp
(Related: Confusion, Expression, Pretty, State)
""10" was amazing! I had no career before "10" and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business."
- Bo Derek
(Related: Business, Career, Pretty)
"I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Work, Nature, Attitude, Pretty, Support)
"I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights."
- Jackie DeShannon
(Related: Being, Career, Pretty)
"Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible."
- Ajay Devgan
(Related: Ideas, Possibility, Pretty)
"If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out."
- Dustin Diamond
(Related: People, Play, Pretty)
"I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Pretty)
"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."
- Ani DiFranco
(Related: God, Hatred, Pretty, Ugly)
"Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid."
- Trent Dilfer
(Related: Golf, Pretty)
"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all."
- Annie Dillard
(Related: Love, People, Pretty, Writer)
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
- Everett Dirksen
(Related: Money, Pretty, Talking)
"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."
- Cory Doctorow
(Related: Feelings, Pretty)
"I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Pretty)
"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Company, Pretty)
"It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake."
- Vincent D'Onofrio
(Related: Mistake, People, First, Pretty)
"Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president."
- Stephen Dorff
(Related: End, President, Pretty, World)
"I come from a pretty strange family."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Family, Pretty)
"Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think."
- Robert Downey, Jr.
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience."
- Rachel Dratch
(Related: Experience, Idea, Fun, Pretty, Trying)
"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Boys, Compliment, Fact, Pretty)
"All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm."
- Jermaine Dupri
(Related: Pretty)
"As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go."
- Sanjay Dutt
(Related: People, First, Friends, Pretty)
"High Noon is a pretty corny movie."
- Robert Duvall
(Related: Pretty)
"Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Clothes, Pretty, Worth)
"So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Life, Kids, Pretty, Will)
"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
- Dick Van Dyke
(Related: Pretty)
"Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion."
- George Eads
(Related: Time, Circumstances, Emotion, Pretty)
"I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game."
- George Eads
(Related: Body, Pretty)
"Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around."
- Sylvia Earle
(Related: Time, Fish, Oysters, Pretty)
"To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Winning, Martin, Pretty)
"Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life."
- Sheena Easton
(Related: Life, Decisions, Pretty)
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
- Bernie Ebbers
(Related: Coach, Coaching, Marketing, Pretty)
"She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember."
- Dick Ebersol
(Related: First, Meeting, Pretty)
"When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start."
- Dennis Eckersley
(Related: First, Pretty)
"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though."
- Mark Edwards
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent."
- Mark Edwards
(Related: Money, Politics, Mind, Pretty)
"One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all."
- Zac Efron
(Related: Funny, Time, Pretty)
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Kiss, Attention, Giving, Kissing, Man, Pretty)
"When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed."
- Chiwetel Ejiofor
(Related: First, Pretty)
"I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner."
- Shannon Elizabeth
(Related: Pretty, Quick)
"Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee."
- Hector Elizondo
(Related: Job, Pretty, Right, Woman)
"People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities."
- Linda Ellerbee
(Related: People, Pretty)
"Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common."
- David R. Ellis
(Related: Policy, Pretty)
"I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money."
- David R. Ellis
(Related: Car, Money, Fire, Pretty)
"The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far."
- Daniel Ellsberg
(Related: Fact, Judgment, Pretty)
"Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule."
- Daniel Ellsberg
(Related: Lie, Nothing, Pretty)
"I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it."
- Keith Emerson
(Related: Love, Music, Country, Country music, Jazz, Pretty)
"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion."
- Eminem
(Related: Life, Home, Fantasy, Living, Pretty, Rap, Rebellion, Saying, School)
"I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great."
- Todd English
(Related: Son, Night, Party, Pretty)
"So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble."
- John Entwistle
(Related: Age, Time, Guitar, Pretty)
"We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate."
- Michael Enzi
(Related: Education, Career, Pretty)
"Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big."
- Brian Epstein
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."
- R. Lee Ermey
(Related: Truth, Fun, Pretty)
"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
- Julius Erving
(Related: Conservative, Court, Pretty)
"You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool."
- Will Estes
(Related: Music, Thought, Party, Pretty)
"Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is."
- Ron Fairly
(Related: Idea, Old, Pretty, Will, Years)
"We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something."
- Jimmy Fallon
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files."
- Shawn Fanning
(Related: People, Media, Obvious, Pretty)
"I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly."
- Shawn Fanning
(Related: Pretty, Trying)
"Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design."
- Shawn Fanning
(Related: Design, Pretty, Today)
"This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer."
- Dennis Farina
(Related: Experience, First, Pretty)
"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: Pretty, School, Washington)
"David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good."
- Richard Farnsworth
(Related: Pretty, states, United)
"I'm pretty boring really."
- Brett Favre
(Related: Pretty)
"As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do."
- Corey Feldman
(Related: People, Actor, Pretty, Reading, Want, Words)
"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."
- Brian Ferneyhough
(Related: Pretty, Ritual)
"A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal."
- Will Ferrell
(Related: People, Childhood, Comedy, Events, Pretty)
"I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different."
- Harvey Fierstein
(Related: Pretty, Song)
"When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Children, Debt, Pretty, Senate)
"Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Pretty)
"We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Pretty)
"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Music, Living, Pretty, Sense, Want, Words)
"For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life."
- Jon Fishman
(Related: Age, Life, Old, Pretty, Years)
"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Related: Success, Cards, Pretty)
"Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do."
- Joe Flanigan
(Related: Learning, May, Pretty, Want)
"But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary."
- Grandmaster Flash
(Related: Art, God, People, First, Pretty, Style)
"I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything."
- Richard Fleeshman
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want."
- Renee Fleming
(Related: Pretty, Song, Want, World)
"The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step."
- Calista Flockhart
(Related: Buying, Pretty)
"I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker."
- John Fogerty
(Related: Time, Play, Pretty)
"I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day."
- Bridget Fonda
(Related: Day, Parents, Pretty)
"I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic."
- Bridget Fonda
(Related: Mistake, Being, Pretty)
"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."
- Steve Forbert
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."
- Steve Forbert
(Related: Audiences, Pretty)
"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."
- Steve Forbert
(Related: People, Challenge, Pretty, Song)
"I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today."
- Gerald R. Ford
(Related: Football, Name, Pretty, Today, Word)
"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
(Related: Music, Day, Night, Pretty)
"You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There's a nasty vibe between the chicks in the club. It's like a pretty girl can't look at another pretty girl and say Wow she's pretty."
- Willa Ford
(Related: Girls, Jaded, Pretty)
"But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches."
- Guy Forget
(Related: Fatigue, Pretty, Weapons)
"Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game."
- Peter Forsberg
(Related: Golf, Pretty)
"As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Gardens, Houses, Open, Pretty, Rest, Shops, Visit)
"I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Film, Pretty, Wildlife, World)
"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it."
- Jeff Foxworthy
(Related: Present, Pretty)
"Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie."
- James Franco
(Related: Pretty)
"Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks."
- Al Franken
(Related: Money, First, Pretty, Right, Years)
"To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Life, Beginning, End, Pretty)
"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Pretty)
"Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her."
- Chris Frantz
(Related: Home, Pretty)
"Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed."
- Clement Freud
(Related: Pretty)
"The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill."
- Glenn Frey
(Related: Drinking, Eagles, Parents, Pretty, Years)
"Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger."
- Nancy Friday
(Related: Anger, Society, Women, Pretty)
"When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Politics, People, American, Pretty, Safety, Security, Talk)
"As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets."
- Fred Frith
(Related: Now, Pretty, Thinking)
"How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear."
- Lynette Fromme
(Related: People, Animals, Children, Earth, Generations, Pretty, Water, Will)
"In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is."
- John Frusciante
(Related: Pretty, World)
"Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically."
- Martin Fry
(Related: Pretty, Song)
"Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that."
- Edward Furlong
(Related: Love, Movies, Pretty)
"It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies."
- Edward Furlong
(Related: Movies, Pretty)
"My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive."
- Diane von Furstenberg
(Related: Clothes, Light, Pretty)
"So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them."
- Neil Gaiman
(Related: Ideas, Artist, Editors, Pretty, Writer)
"So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Play, Pretty, Want)
"And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Control, Pretty)
"Deep down, I'm pretty superficial."
- Ava Gardner
(Related: Deep, Pretty)
"I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do."
- Art Garfunkel
(Related: Harmony, Pretty)
"In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows."
- Peter Garrett
(Related: Money, People, Pretty)
"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
- Bob Geldof
(Related: Pretty)
"I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am."
- Melissa George
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases."
- Gina Gershon
(Related: Money, Cure, Pretty, Project, Research, Trying)
"I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality."
- Debbie Gibson
(Related: Dress, Personality, Pretty, Today)
"It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!"
- Tyrese Gibson
(Related: Love, Time, Sex, People, Giving, Pretty, Song, Want)
"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."
- William Gibson
(Related: People, Future, Present, Pretty)
"Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?"
- Elizabeth Gilbert
(Related: Success, Work, Old, Pretty, Right, World, Years)
"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."
- Sara Gilbert
(Related: Pretty, Reality, Television)
"I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer."
- Sara Gilbert
(Related: Pretty, Projects, Trying, Want, Writer)
"My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things."
- Vince Gill
(Related: Direction, Pretty)
"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Music, Power, Feeling, Pretty, Punk)
"I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good."
- David Ginola
(Related: Being, Pretty, Training)
"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in."
- Rob Glaser
(Related: Pretty)
"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them."
- Dan Glickman
(Related: Business, Economy, Rights, Pretty, Property, Respect, World)
"I've got a pretty good appetite right now."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Appetite, Now, Pretty, Right)
"Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Acting, Pretty)
"When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages."
- Matt Gonzalez
(Related: Selling, Drugs, Pretty, Wages)
"Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best."
- Retief Goosen
(Related: End, Pretty)
"I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing."
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar
(Related: Pretty)
"At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold."
- John Gould
(Related: Time, Wife, People, American, Beginning, Old, Pretty, World)
"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Name, Names, Now, Pretty, Wood, World)
"After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Accident, End, Pretty, Sheep)
"In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Work, Ability, Company, Pretty, Road)
"It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up."
- Mary Grandpre
(Related: Pretty, Thinking)
"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
- Bruce Greenwood
(Related: Imagination, Attention, Pretty)
"I'm pretty much an open book."
- Lee Greenwood
(Related: Open, Pretty)
"Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good."
- Andy Griffith
(Related: Ladies, Goodness, Pretty)
"I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me."
- Melanie Griffith
(Related: Pretty)
"I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story."
- Rachel Griffiths
(Related: Pretty)
"A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook."
- Francis J. Grimke
(Related: Religion, Man, Pretty)
"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
- Umberto Guidoni
(Related: Experience, People, Beginning, Italy, Pretty)
"When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm."
- Umberto Guidoni
(Related: First, Pretty, Space, Testing, Will)
"And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican."
- Alma Guillermoprieto
(Related: Work, Gardens, Pretty, Restaurants, Shops, states, United, Will)
"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
- Cathy Guisewite
(Related: Humor, Time, Women, Feelings, First, Pretty, Woman)
"A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands."
- Sacha Guitry
(Related: Man, Pretty, Want, Woman)
"When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Food, Actor, Pretty)
"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."
- Steve Guttenberg
(Related: Pretty)
"We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen."
- Jake Gyllenhaal
(Related: Men, Sex, Kissing, Pretty, Sheep, Talking)
"Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors."
- Gene Hackman
(Related: Actors, Pretty)
"It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Home, Life, Time, Wife, Pretty, Quick)
"HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Company, Pretty, Want)
"I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Music, Girls, Pretty, Sound)
"That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Being, First, Job, Now, Pretty)
"I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Being, Feeling, Pretty)
"With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well."
- Dashiell Hammett
(Related: Pretty)
"She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily."
- Dashiell Hammett
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: Job, Pretty, World)
"Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: People, Pretty, Silly)
"A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
- Daniel Hannan
(Related: Money, Pretty, Talking)
"I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go."
- Alan Hansen
(Related: Fans, Football, Philosophy, Will)
"It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been."
- Zac Hanson
(Related: Pretty)
"When you see a girl like me bustin' perps, there ain't no time to be pretty."
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Film, Pretty)
"This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: People, Pretty, Smoking, Talking)
"Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: People, Pretty, Vote)
"But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them."
- Julie Harris
(Related: People, Clothes, Pretty)
"However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings."
- Marvin Harris
(Related: Mammals, Pretty, Research)
"I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires."
- Ray Harryhausen
(Related: Animation, Pretty, Sense)
"I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Time, Kids, Novelty, Parents, Pretty, School)
"After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather."
- John Hartford
(Related: Learning, Pretty, Thinking, Weather)
"If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor."
- Ernie Harwell
(Related: Baseball, Pretty, Today)
"Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Court, Day, Judges, Lawyers, Merit, Pretty, Will)
"Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll."
- Bobby Hatfield
(Related: Love, People, Cause, Listening, Night, Pretty, Songs)
"I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho."
- John Hawkes
(Related: People, Pretty)
"So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or four years ago and has pretty much had it with that, and he's ready to buy something new."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all."
- Sterling Hayden
(Related: Pretty)
"I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic."
- Salma Hayek
(Related: Character, Film, Pretty)
"I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality."
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Work, Mortality, Pretty)
"Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued."
- Eric Heiden
(Related: Pretty)
"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service."
- Joseph Heller
(Related: Military, Pretty, Service)
"The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did."
- Levon Helm
(Related: Time, Jungle, Pretty)
"But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Experience, People, Care, Feeling, Pretty)
"I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign."
- Chris Hemsworth
(Related: Being, Film, Pretty)
"It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers."
- Don Henley
(Related: Careers, Famous, Pretty)
"I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough."
- Don Henley
(Related: Pretty, Voice)
"I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well."
- Don Henley
(Related: First, Play, Pretty)
"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."
- Jim Henson
(Related: Time, Needs, Pretty, Reason, Style, Television)
"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
- Jim Henson
(Related: England, Pretty)
"I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot."
- Jay Hernandez
(Related: Basketball, Play, Pretty)
"But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: Pretty, Project, Testing)
"I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: April, Pretty)
"Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games."
- Faith Hill
(Related: Children, Football, Games, Pretty)
"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Business, Experience, Idea, Editors, Pretty)
"All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: People, Names, Pretty)
"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Pretty, Reason)
"You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy."
- Robyn Hitchcock
(Related: Time, First, Pretty)
"I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled."
- Alice Hoffman
(Related: Home, Kids, Pretty, School)
"The size of my head though is pretty abnormal."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Pretty)
"The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do."
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Related: Work, Body, Pretty)
"He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Time, Life, Pretty, Worry, Writing)
"What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Time, Feeling, Pressure, Pretty, Space)
"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Pretty, Reputation)
"I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so."
- Larry Holmes
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Truth, Children, Pretty, World)
"My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong."
- Mark Hoppus
(Related: Morality, Difference, Growing up, Parents, Pretty, Right, Wrong)
"All the really pretty girls get pregnant."
- Mark Hoppus
(Related: Girls, Pretty)
"Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer."
- Marilyn Horne
(Related: Americans, Language, Pretty, Style)
"I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily."
- Kelly Hu
(Related: Evil, Pretty)
"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Being, Pretty)
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Happiness, Wealth, Poverty, Pretty)
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Happiness, Wealth, Poverty, Pretty)
"Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Being, Pretty, Suspicion)
"The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup."
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Makeup, Pretty)
"I think I'd make a pretty good girlfriend."
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Girlfriend, Pretty)
"When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard."
- Kate Hudson
(Related: Pretty)
"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
- John Hughes
(Related: Movies, Teen, Time, Sex, Idea, Boys, Hollywood, Horror, Nudity, Pretty, Pursuit)
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
- Bobby Hull
(Related: Pressure, Pretty)
"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: Goodwill, Hell, Intentions, Pretty, Road, Senate)
"Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!"
- Charlie Hunter
(Related: Force, Play, Pretty, Style, Trying)
"Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard."
- Charlie Hunter
(Related: Home, Jazz, Pretty)
"I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink."
- Elizabeth Hurley
(Related: Sports, Thought, American, Lady, Now, Pretty, Stars, Want)
"I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining."
- Michael Hutchence
(Related: Ego, Pretty)
"Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time."
- James Iha
(Related: Time, Friends, Pretty)
"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."
- Paul Ince
(Related: Pretty)
"'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me."
- Michael Irvin
(Related: Friend, Help, Hurt, Media, Pretty, Trying)
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
- John Irving
(Related: Business, Actor, Pretty, Skin, Writer)
"Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?"
- Bindi Irwin
(Related: Time, Losing, Pretty)
"It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that."
- Jason Isaacs
(Related: Pretty)
"I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail."
- Alija Izetbegovic
(Related: God, Truth, People, Destiny, Help, Lies, May, Pretty, Ugly, Will)
"Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others."
- Eddie Izzard
(Related: Music, People, Pretty, Singing)
"I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now."
- Janet Jackson
(Related: Family, Sex, Sister, Now, Pretty)
"I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things."
- Janet Jackson
(Related: Pretty, Temper)
"I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid."
- Janet Jackson
(Related: Imagination, Pretty)
"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."
- Joseph Jackson
(Related: Pretty, Security)
"I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are."
- Tito Jackson
(Related: People, Fame, Gain, News, Pretty)
"That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life."
- Victoria Jackson
(Related: Business, Life, Fantasy, Guitar, Pretty)
"You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out."
- Brion James
(Related: Comedy, Pretty)
"I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical."
- Thomas Jane
(Related: Pretty, Respect)
"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next."
- Famke Janssen
(Related: Name, Pretty)
"Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that."
- Waylon Jennings
(Related: Pretty)
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
- Norman Jewison
(Related: Movies, Awards, Complaints, Old, Pretty)
"I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints."
- Norman Jewison
(Related: Movies, Awards, Complaints, Pretty)
"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."
- Steve Jobs
(Related: Money, Being, Innovation, Pretty)
"Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?"
- Billy Joel
(Related: Thought, Career, Pretty)
"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
- Billy Joel
(Related: America, Americans, Pretty)
"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."
- Lara St. John
(Related: Thought, Being, Pretty, Weeping)
"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."
- Diane Johnson
(Related: May, Pretty)
"If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that."
- Dwayne Johnson
(Related: Time, Audiences, Comedy, Ego, Pretty)
"No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't."
- Nancy Johnson
(Related: Order, Pretty)
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
- Philip Johnson
(Related: Business, Clients, Pretty, Projects, Want)
"I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty."
- Kristen Johnston
(Related: Funny, People, Pretty)
"Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic."
- Cobi Jones
(Related: Fitness, Pretty)
"The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick."
- Kelly Jones
(Related: First, Guitar, Paris, Pretty, Quick, Reason, Song)
"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."
- Marion Jones
(Related: First, Games, Pretty)
"I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time."
- Tom Jones
(Related: Time, People, Eye, Media, Pretty)
"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Love, Successful, Fact, Friends, Misery, Pretty)
"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."
- Al Jourgensen
(Related: Pretty, Punk)
"This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it."
- Jon Bon Jovi
(Related: Sex, Living, May, Pretty, Trying, Years)
"I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years."
- Milla Jovovich
(Related: Love, Movies, Pretty, Rest, Years)
"I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated."
- Donald Judd
(Related: Country, Environment, Pretty)
"That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year."
- Peter Jurasik
(Related: Home, Boys, Pretty)
"I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger."
- Jane Kaczmarek
(Related: Day, Pretty)
"Acting is pretty much my whole life."
- Carol Kane
(Related: Life, Acting, Pretty)
"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people."
- John Keegan
(Related: Change, Men, Power, People, Nations, Pretty)
"It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing."
- Monica Keena
(Related: People, Pretty)
"It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout."
- Jonathan Kellerman
(Related: Time, Books, Pretty)
"But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false."
- John Harvey Kellogg
(Related: Work, Anxiety, Being, Country, Friends, Hard work, Pretty, Worry)
"A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick."
- Moira Kelly
(Related: Graduation, Months, Pretty, Quick)
"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important."
- John F. Kerry
(Related: Poetry, Anger, Energy, Pretty, Rap)
"There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help."
- Jason Kidd
(Related: Help, Improvement, Pretty, Want, Will)
"When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job."
- Jason Kidd
(Related: Age, Court, Job, Play, Pretty)
"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Being, Pretty)
"I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Love, Feeling, Pretty, Struggle)
"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."
- Laura Kightlinger
(Related: Movies, Women, Goal, Man, Pretty, Woman)
"The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5."
- Jack Kilby
(Related: First, Pretty, Today)
"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes."
- Jack Kilby
(Related: Pretty)
"It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up."
- Jimmy Kimmel
(Related: Funny, Now, Popular, Pretty, School, states, United, Want)
"Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place."
- Ben E. King
(Related: Travel, Pretty)
"My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes."
- Kerry King
(Related: Media, Pretty)
"When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end."
- Kerry King
(Related: End, Party, Play, Pretty, Song)
"When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that."
- Kerry King
(Related: Play, Pretty, Will)
"I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding."
- Richard King
(Related: Work, Act, Entertainment, Months, Pretty, Years)
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Related: Love, Law, Man, May, Pretty)
"We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die."
- Sean Kinney
(Related: Art, Music, Pretty, Want)
"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""
- Rudyard Kipling
(Related: Art, Heart, Devil, First, Joy, Pretty, World)
"A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story."
- Chuck Klosterman
(Related: People, Strategy, Successful, End, Pretty, Question)
"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Coaching, Interest, Pretty)
"Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Car, Content, Fancy, Now, Pretty, Sales)
"I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses."
- David Knopfler
(Related: People, Pretty)
"Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life."
- Dean Koontz
(Related: Life, Evil, Murder, Pretty)
"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book."
- Ted Koppel
(Related: May, Pretty, Worth)
"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."
- Lajos Kossuth
(Related: Development, Cause, Gentlemen, Interest, Pretty)
"There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me."
- Anna Kournikova
(Related: First, Girls, Pretty, Results, Tennis)
"She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money."
- Dennis Kozlowski
(Related: Money, Life, Lawyers, Pretty)
"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King."
- Jonathan Kozol
(Related: Policy, Dream, Difference, Martin, Now, Pretty, Public, Public policy, Teaching)
"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."
- Wayne Kramer
(Related: End, First, Night, Pretty)
"I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that."
- Peter Krause
(Related: Rights, Human rights, Pretty)
"And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now."
- Peter Krause
(Related: Fun, Night, Now, Pretty, Right)
"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Artist, Being, Growing up, Pretty)
"I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Now, Pretty, School)
"A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles."
- Diane Kruger
(Related: People, Idea, Pretty)
"I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty."
- Diane Kruger
(Related: Movies, Being, Pretty)
"Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!"
- David Krumholtz
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful."
- Gene Krupa
(Related: Work, Chance, Pretty, Variety)
"Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent."
- Gene Krupa
(Related: Talent, Luck, Pretty)
"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
- Lisa Kudrow
(Related: Conservative, Pretty)
"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Time, Work, Life, Job, Journalism, Luck, News, Pretty)
"It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script."
- Chiaki Kuriyama
(Related: Ideas, First, Pretty)
"I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories."
- Chiaki Kuriyama
(Related: Character, Extreme, Fact, Pretty)
"I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot."
- Shia LaBeouf
(Related: Film, Golf, Pretty)
"Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: Pretty, Voice)
"The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball."
- James Lafferty
(Related: Work, Basketball, Environment, Play, Pretty)
"The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come."
- James Lafferty
(Related: Marriage, Hope, Pretty)
"I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that."
- Veronica Lake
(Related: Life, Attitude, Pretty)
"Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Divorce, Hollywood, Pretty, Running)
"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."
- Wally Lamb
(Related: Fiction, May, Pretty, Writers, Writing)
"Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important."
- Michael Landon
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"I thought it was pretty good to be mentioned in a big paper, so I decided to keep the nickname."
- Dick Lane
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"The last few years have been pretty hectic."
- Frank Langella
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?"
- Tommy Lasorda
(Related: Love, Kissing, Pretty)
"I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'"
- Jude Law
(Related: Work, Actors, Body, Obvious, Pretty)
"Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too."
- Matthew Lawrence
(Related: Education, Acting, Advice, Career, End, Fact, Hollywood, Jobs, Kids, Pretty)
"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."
- Norman Lear
(Related: Life, May, Pretty, Television)
"I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized."
- Patrice Leconte
(Related: Cooking, Pretty)
"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room."
- Joshua Lederberg
(Related: Work, Pretty, Public, Questions, Reading, School, Teachers, Years)
"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them."
- Ang Lee
(Related: Movies, Hate, Past, Pretty)
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
- Bruce Lee
(Related: Friendship, Love, Beginning, Deep, Fire, Light, Pretty)
"I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes."
- Geddy Lee
(Related: Work, Attitude, Extreme, Extremes, Pretty)
"People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'"
- Sung Hi Lee
(Related: Women, People, Pretty, Woman)
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Design, Care, Pretty, Want)
"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"
- Annie Leibovitz
(Related: Life, Work, Pretty)
"When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays."
- Mario Lemieux
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not."
- Sean Lennon
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people."
- Thomas Lennon
(Related: People, Old, Pretty, Rest, State, Theatre, University, Years)
"A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age."
- Annie Lennox
(Related: Age, Music, Now, Pretty)
"It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
- Alan Jay Lerner
(Related: Character, Pretty)
"And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth."
- James Levine
(Related: Time, Work, Guest, Pretty)
"The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit."
- Juliette Lewis
(Related: Character, Actor, Girls, Nothing, Play, Pretty, Want)
"You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard."
- Roy Lichtenstein
(Related: Music, People, Idea, Pretty, Reality, World)
"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Politics, Compromise, Interest, Losing, Pretty)
"The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects."
- James Lind
(Related: Thought, Being, Now, Pretty, Rest)
"I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh."
- Cody Linley
(Related: Pretty)
"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
- Seth Lloyd
(Related: Society, Science, England, Information, Pretty, Today)
"No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Books, Film, Pretty, World)
"Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid."
- Donal Logue
(Related: Actors, Pretty)
"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her."
- Lindsay Lohan
(Related: Mother, Sister, Opinions, Trouble, Want)
"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work."
- Nia Long
(Related: Work, Being, Play, Pretty)
"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head."
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
(Related: Appearance, Fire, Loss, Pretty, Vigilance)
"I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you."
- Sophia Loren
(Related: Dumb, Mind, Pretty)
"I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty."
- Tina Louise
(Related: Pretty)
"Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything."
- Mike Lowry
(Related: Experience, Soul, Pretty)
"The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about."
- Rich Lowry
(Related: War, Debate, First, Nation, Pretty, Printing)
"I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime."
- Gary Lucas
(Related: Limitations, Now, Play, Pretty)
"It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it."
- Matt Lucas
(Related: Life, People, Pretty, Want)
"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Truth, People, Chance, Deep, Pretty)
"My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me."
- David Lynch
(Related: Pretty)
"They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring."
- James MacArthur
(Related: Pretty, Trees)
"Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well."
- James MacArthur
(Related: Luck, Nothing, Pretty, Road)
"In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies."
- John Gresham Machen
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense."
- Catharine MacKinnon
(Related: Defense, Effect, Pretty, Violence)
"I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor."
- John Malkovich
(Related: Actor, Pretty, Theater)
"As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Dad, Sister, Brother, Growing up, Pretty, Talk)
"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Pretty, Sexuality)
"This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it."
- Robert Mapplethorpe
(Related: Hope, Pretty)
"These days I'm pretty much a businessman."
- Wellington Mara
(Related: Pretty)
"Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool."
- Josie Maran
(Related: Character, Pretty)
"I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all."
- Josie Maran
(Related: Car, Pretty)
"The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
- Mary Ellen Mark
(Related: Life, People, Obsessions, Pretty)
"I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in."
- Sterling Marlin
(Related: Car, Pretty, Race)
"It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath."
- Sterling Marlin
(Related: Pretty, Race)
"We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year."
- Sterling Marlin
(Related: Chance, Now, Pretty)
"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Nothing, Pretty)
"Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Sex, Kissing, Man, Pretty, Talking)
"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
- Steve Martin
(Related: Business, Comedy, May, Pretty)
"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
- Wink Martindale
(Related: Business, Pretty)
"I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty."
- Marsha Mason
(Related: Love, Pretty)
"In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring."
- Mary Stuart Masterson
(Related: Work, Doctors, Inspiring, Order, Passion, Pretty)
"The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty."
- Walter Matthau
(Related: Bed, First, Pretty)
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Pretty, Quotation, Wit)
"I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces."
- Melissa Auf der Maur
(Related: Parents, Pretty)
"I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better."
- Amelie Mauresmo
(Related: Now, Pretty)
"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."
- Brian May
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."
- Brian May
(Related: Guitar, Pretty, Sound)
"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support."
- Jane Mayer
(Related: People, Complaints, Military, Pretty, Public, Support)
"Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly if there's anything coercive or abusive going on."
- Jane Mayer
(Related: Doctors, Ethics, Pretty)
"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Drugs, Pretty)
"John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him."
- Paul McCartney
(Related: Time, Effort, Pretty)
"We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells."
- Paul McCartney
(Related: Wedding, Army, Bells, Old, Pretty)
"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved."
- Paul McCartney
(Related: Business, Money, Now, Pretty)
"Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything."
- Mitch McConnell
(Related: Change, Countries, Obvious, Press, Pretty)
"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
- Craig McCracken
(Related: Charm, Energy, Mind, Pretty, Trying)
"There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too."
- Mike McCready
(Related: People, Career, Pretty)
"I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research."
- David McCullough
(Related: Pretty, Research, Writing, Years)
"It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings."
- George Barr McCutcheon
(Related: Father, Chicago, Office, Pretty)
"I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser."
- Gates McFadden
(Related: Love, Architecture, Gardening, Music, Pretty)
"A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that."
- Todd McFarlane
(Related: Time, People, Controversy, Fun, Pretty)
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
- Phyllis McGinley
(Related: Marriage, Idea, Acceptance, Man, Pretty, Woman)
"It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while."
- Rose McGowan
(Related: People, Pretty, Want)
"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
- Michael McKean
(Related: Pretty, Style)
"I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway."
- Ben McKenzie
(Related: Money, Now, Parents, Pretty, Struggle, Want)
"It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing."
- Sarah McLachlan
(Related: Luxury, Old, Pretty, Years)
"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."
- Sarah McLachlan
(Related: Music, Confidence, Friends, Pretty)
"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Pretty)
"I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief."
- Julian McMahon
(Related: Life, Father, Meeting, Pretty)
"It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon."
- Julian McMahon
(Related: People, Job, Pretty, Saying)
"The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over."
- Christine McVie
(Related: Europe, Mind, Old, Pretty)
"My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves."
- Christine McVie
(Related: Pretty, Self, Songs)
"I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well."
- Christine McVie
(Related: Money, Pretty)
"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."
- Golda Meir
(Related: Being, Pretty)
"Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life."
- Lord Melbourne
(Related: Life, Religion, Pretty)
"If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Life, Pretty, Value)
"There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Friend, Being, Care, Pretty, Right)
"But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Actor, Job, Pretty, Saying)
"Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure."
- Felix Mendelssohn
(Related: Thought, Pleasure, Pretty, Public)
"In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me."
- Ethel Merman
(Related: Pretty)
"Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career."
- Mark Messier
(Related: Career, End, Pretty)
"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."
- Pat Metheny
(Related: Music, Play, Pretty, World)
"In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer."
- Jason Mewes
(Related: Pretty)
"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."
- Jason Mewes
(Related: Pretty)
"Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage."
- John Milius
(Related: People, Courage, Pretty)
"In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences."
- Dan Miller
(Related: Neighbors, Pretty)
"Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good."
- Johnny Miller
(Related: Pretty, Serenity)
"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison."
- Jonathan Miller
(Related: Pretty, Theater)
"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."
- Rebecca Miller
(Related: Funny, Music, People, Film, Painting, Pretty, World)
"In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through."
- Shannon Miller
(Related: Pretty, Routine)
"To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?"
- Wentworth Miller
(Related: Home, People, Play, Pretty)
"I'm pretty much a couch potato."
- Wentworth Miller
(Related: Pretty)
"I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully."
- Kate Millett
(Related: Hell, Pretty)
"What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
- A. A. Milne
(Related: Pretty)
"I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out."
- Martin Milner
(Related: Complaints, Pretty)
"I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time."
- Kylie Minogue
(Related: Time, Music, Dance, Pretty)
"All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting."
- Andrea Mitchell
(Related: Love, Politics, Pretty, Taste)
"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Government, Pretty)
"I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that."
- Dominic Monaghan
(Related: Living, Nothing, Pretty, World)
"I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting."
- Dominic Monaghan
(Related: People, Jobs, Pretty, Waiting)
"I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games."
- Thelonious Monk
(Related: Games, Play, Pretty)
"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't."
- Marilyn Monroe
(Related: Girls, Pretty)
"The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard."
- Mary Wortley Montagu
(Related: Time, Attention, Nothing, Pretty, Worth)
"Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man."
- Wes Montgomery
(Related: Time, Work, Man, Night, Pretty, Road, Will)
"I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me."
- Ronnie Montrose
(Related: Influence, Old, Pretty)
"I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion."
- Ronnie Montrose
(Related: People, Opinion, Pretty)
"Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant."
- Mary Tyler Moore
(Related: Pretty)
"Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican."
- Michael Moore
(Related: President, Pretty, Republican)
"A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon."
- Thomas Moore
(Related: Wife, Pretty, Vanity)
"There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me."
- Daniel Keys Moran
(Related: People, Pretty)
"Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: People, Pretty, Worry)
"The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it."
- Marguerite Moreau
(Related: Family, Perspective, Pretty, Want)
"If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination."
- Michael Moriarty
(Related: Imagination, Life, God, Pretty, Talk, Want)
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
- John Morley
(Related: Crime, Duty, Laws, Pretty, Sun, Worship)
"People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it."
- Kate Moss
(Related: Success, People, Pretty)
"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
- Martin Mull
(Related: Pretty)
"The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me."
- Kary Mullis
(Related: Horror, Pretty)
"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."
- George Murphy
(Related: Pretty, Rest)
"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads."
- Graeme Murphy
(Related: Entertainment, Pretty)
"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."
- Dave Mustaine
(Related: Bible, Books, Envy, Fun, Gluttony, Greed, Help, Lust, Pretty, Pride, Self, Wrath)
"I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me."
- Graham Nash
(Related: Beginning, Listening, Pretty, Sound)
"I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale."
- Steve Nash
(Related: Adversity, Pretty, Right)
"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
- George Jean Nathan
(Related: Men, First, Open, Pretty, Running)
"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
- George Jean Nathan
(Related: May, Pretty, Theater, Undertakers)
"I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity."
- Bruce Nauman
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it."
- Holly Near
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do."
- Sam Neill
(Related: Love, Film, Pretty)
"When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Women, College, Play, Pretty, Theatre)
"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."
- John von Neumann
(Related: Technology, Computer, Limits, Pretty, Silly, Sound, Years)
"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well."
- Bebe Neuwirth
(Related: Health, Work, People, Friends, Pretty, Profession, Relationships)
"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."
- Simon Newcomb
(Related: Name, Old, Pretty, Years)
"I was a pretty feisty young kid."
- John Newcombe
(Related: Pretty)
"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."
- John Newcombe
(Related: Living, Pretty, Stupidity)
"The whole series is black-and-white, so when I went to shoot one of the women I only had black-and-white film with me. She had reddish hair and was a very pretty girl, a nice girl."
- Helmut Newton
(Related: Women, Film, Hair, Pretty)
"Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger."
- Jack Nicholson
(Related: Old, Pretty, Woman)
"I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person."
- Stevie Nicks
(Related: Fear, Pretty)
"I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
(Related: Truth, Cynicism, Pretty)
"I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living."
- Harry Nilsson
(Related: Men, Hope, Optimism, Despair, Desperation, Living, Pretty, Quiet, Solution)
"But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say."
- Leonard Nimoy
(Related: Art, Work, Deep, Pretty, Questions, Talking, Want)
"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Friend, Pretty, Writing)
"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."
- Albert J. Nock
(Related: Culture, Learning, Pretty, World)
"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place."
- Christopher Nolan
(Related: Pretty, Television)
"Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British Open, from surgery, which was priority No. 1, did that successfully, and each week since the British Open I've felt in pretty good control of my golf game."
- Greg Norman
(Related: Control, Golf, Open, Pretty)
"Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story."
- Oliver North
(Related: Life, Excitement, Mission, Pretty, Realism, Sense)
"He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page."
- Jeremy Northam
(Related: Humor, Pretty, Sarcastic, Sense)
"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."
- Charlie Norwood
(Related: Force, Legislation, Months, Pretty, Trying)
"But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing."
- Krist Novoselic
(Related: Pretty, Singing)
"I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis."
- Jana Novotna
(Related: Old, Pretty, Right, Tennis, Years)
"In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work."
- Trevor Nunn
(Related: Work, Integrity, Limits, Pretty, Theater)
"The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Government, Time, War, Army, Canada, Help, Iraq, Pretty, Will)
"I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly."
- Donald O'Connor
(Related: Time, Day, Now, Pretty)
"The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people."
- Bob Odenkirk
(Related: People, Now, Pretty, Years)
"I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know."
- Bob Odenkirk
(Related: Home, Work, Kids, Night, Office, Play, Pretty, Projects)
"I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously."
- Catherine O'Hara
(Related: God, Family, Heart, Belief, Being, Care, Prayer, Pretty, Religious)
"I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now."
- Larisa Oleynik
(Related: Life, Nothing, Now, Pretty, Right)
"It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product."
- Andrew Oliver
(Related: Development, Pretty)
"At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent."
- Edward James Olmos
(Related: Pretty)
"Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices."
- Alex O'Loughlin
(Related: Home, Love, Time, Work, Life, Feeling, Holly, Night, Pretty, Sleep)
"Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular."
- Mary-Kate Olsen
(Related: Age, Kids, Pretty, School)
"Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me."
- Tatum O'Neal
(Related: Dad, Attention, Pretty)
"The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families."
- Jerry Only
(Related: Money, Work, Pretty, Support)
"My life was pretty rough."
- Yoko Ono
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy."
- Roy Orbison
(Related: Truth, Mercy, Pretty, Woman)
"I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions."
- Stacie Orrico
(Related: Funny, Food, Pretty)
"I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart."
- Doug Ose
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
- John Otto
(Related: First, Pretty)
"Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can."
- Buck Owens
(Related: Time, Attention, Lady, Light, Pretty, Will)
"I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers."
- Elaine Paige
(Related: Music, Thought, Idea, Pretty, Writers, Writing)
"I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual."
- Rafael Palmeiro
(Related: Pretty)
"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."
- Gwyneth Paltrow
(Related: Mother, Living, Pretty, Theatre)
"Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult."
- Anna Paquin
(Related: Body, Mind, Now, Pretty, Years)
"My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that."
- Bill Parcells
(Related: Life, Pretty, Thinking)
"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."
- Evan Parker
(Related: Education, People, English, Force, Jazz, Musicians, Pretty, Training)
"I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious."
- Evan Parker
(Related: Time, Obvious, Originality, Pretty)
"We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better."
- Tony Parker
(Related: Focus, Pretty)
"Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike."
- Trey Parker
(Related: Humor, Love, Pretty, Sense)
"The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years."
- Andy Partridge
(Related: Time, People, First, Fun, Pretty, Years)
"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Business, Truth, Pretty, Right, Trying)
"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Politics, Pretty)
"You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know."
- Carly Patterson
(Related: Chance, Pretty)
"Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military."
- James Patterson
(Related: Blind, Military, Pretty, Right, Thanksgiving, Will)
"I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'"
- Robert Pattinson
(Related: Dad, Actor, Drama, Girls, Pretty)
"I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me."
- Rob Paulsen
(Related: Work, People, Actors, Day, Fortune, Pretty)
"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
- Simon Pegg
(Related: Fact, Pretty)
"Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Time, Being, First, Now, Pretty, Woman)
"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."
- Robin Wright Penn
(Related: Work, Sex, People, Being, Pretty, Want)
"Our show proves that some pretty incredible things can happen when people come together."
- Ty Pennington
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems."
- Roger Penrose
(Related: Pretty, Problems)
"The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased."
- Charles Perrault
(Related: Son, Day, Pretty, Sisters)
"Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying."
- Matthew Perry
(Related: Fun, Pretty)
"Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty."
- Rachel Perry
(Related: Pretty)
"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: Experience, Work, Chastity, Hard work, Patience, Pretty, Reading)
"You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film."
- Thomas Perry
(Related: Time, Books, Difficulty, Film, Lies, Pretty, Talk)
"Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone."
- William Petersen
(Related: Work, Heart, Lady, Pretty)
"Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr."
- Cassandra Peterson
(Related: Character, Feeling, Pretty)
"When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me."
- Liz Phair
(Related: Music, People, Internet, Listening, Pretty)
"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."
- Michael Phelps
(Related: Pretty, Scotland, Woman)
"Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day."
- Emo Philips
(Related: Family, Life, Time, Day, Devil, Pretty)
"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Pretty, World)
"I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it."
- John L. Phillips
(Related: Decision, Career, Desire, Navy, Pretty)
"I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine."
- Mike Piazza
(Related: Body, Old, Pretty)
"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."
- Jeremy Piven
(Related: Pretty)
"She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her."
- John Podhoretz
(Related: Needs, Pretty, Word)
"I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction."
- Frederik Pohl
(Related: Science, Fiction, Pretty)
"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
- Sydney Pollack
(Related: Movies, Kids, Pretty)
"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Pretty, Public)
"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Soul, Eyes, May, Merit, Pretty, Sight)
"When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work."
- Paulina Porizkova
(Related: Work, Pretty)
"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."
- Gail Porter
(Related: Company, Now, Pretty, Production)
"I'm pretty hard on myself in general."
- Natalie Portman
(Related: Pretty)
"The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous."
- Natalie Portman
(Related: Time, Day, Pretty)
"But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Home, Computer, Connection, Pretty)
"A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end."
- Chaim Potok
(Related: Work, End, Fiction, Pretty, Writer)
"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Defense, Pretty, Republican)
"Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience."
- Victoria Pratt
(Related: Women, Action, Heroes, Pretty)
"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his."
- George Dennison Prentice
(Related: Heart, Lady, Man, Pretty)
"I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way."
- Kelly Preston
(Related: Fancy, Pretty)
"Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty."
- Jacques Prevert
(Related: Art, Father, Earth, Heaven, Pretty, Will)
"Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Eyes, Now)
"I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Guitar, Pretty)
"It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Now, Pretty)
"Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Imagination, Men, Women, Pretty)
"I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper."
- Big Pun
(Related: Thought, People, Pretty)
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Fighting, Pretty)
"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
- Robert Quine
(Related: Pretty, Suicide)
"When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it."
- Glenn Quinn
(Related: Movies, Chance, First, Fun, Mythology, Pretty)
"At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe."
- Ted Rall
(Related: American, Bosses, Pretty, Workers)
"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone."
- Aron Ralston
(Related: Pretty)
"My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club."
- Harold Ramis
(Related: People, College, Country, First, Military, Numbers, Pretty, Summer)
"I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport."
- Harold Ramis
(Related: Fun, Pretty, Rapport)
"One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either."
- Charlotte Rampling
(Related: Women, Eye, Pretty)
"The competition is pretty rough these days."
- Tony Randall
(Related: Competition, Pretty)
"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Fact, Nothing, Now, Pretty, Talk, Years)
"Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things."
- Lou Reed
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that."
- Keanu Reeves
(Related: Heart, Kissing, Pretty)
"Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now."
- Richard Reeves
(Related: Night, Now, Pretty, Right, Weapons)
"If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is."
- Haley Reinhart
(Related: Life, Day, Name, Pretty, Song)
"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
- Jules Renard
(Related: Open, Pretty, Will, Woman)
"As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter."
- Mary Lou Retton
(Related: Pretty)
"A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste."
- Ruggiero Ricci
(Related: Music, People, Pretty, Sound, Taste)
"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
- Anne Rice
(Related: Pretty, Writers)
"That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra."
- Anne Rice
(Related: Lonely, Pretty, Training, Writer)
"Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective."
- Adam Rich
(Related: Pretty)
"I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it."
- Ann Richards
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family."
- Patricia Richardson
(Related: Family, Truth, Being, Fatigue, Fight, Living, Present, Pretty, Trying)
"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: Work, Luxury, Pretty)
"I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Draft, First, Pretty)
"For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: American, Letters, Pretty, Rejection)
"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
- Oscar Robertson
(Related: Pretty)
"And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation."
- Pat Robertson
(Related: Laws, Nation, Pretty)
"It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Time, Moments, Pretty, Word)
"That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it."
- Bryan Robson
(Related: Manager, Coach, Poor, Pretty, Years)
"But honestly, it's pretty weird; there are girls who'd do absolutely everything just to get a backstage pass. I don't know what it is, but really, when you're on national TV in America the girls love you. They all want you! And I'm not complaining!"
- Kid Rock
(Related: Love, America, Girls, Pretty, Want)
"I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow."
- Kid Rock
(Related: Home, Being, Pretty)
"It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away."
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: Pretty)
"I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end."
- Michelle Rodriguez
(Related: Work, Thought, People, End, Film, Pretty, Trying)
"I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down."
- Richard Rogers
(Related: Being, Driving, Force, Pretty)
"I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances."
- Roy Rogers
(Related: Pretty, School)
"I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Technology, Leading, Pretty)
"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Business, Music, Success, Computer, Pretty)
"I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Memory, Pretty)
"The game-playing market today is pretty sizable."
- John Romero
(Related: Pretty, Today)
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."
- Dave Van Ronk
(Related: Time, Pretty)
"It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim."
- Stephen Root
(Related: Character, Comedy, Play, Pretty)
"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
- Hilary Rosen
(Related: Pretty)
"With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Money, Clothes, Now, Pretty)
"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Pretty)
"It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Success, Pretty)
"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Artist, Pretty)
"I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: People, Pretty)
"I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Sex, Heroes, Pretty, Punk)
"I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo."
- Gavin Rossdale
(Related: Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."
- Portia de Rossi
(Related: Pretty, Talking, Youth)
"There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Life, Character, Acting, Actor, Famous, Intention, Pressure, Pretty, Will)
"But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you."
- Mike Rounds
(Related: People, Goals, Vision, Pretty)
"That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character."
- Brandon Routh
(Related: Time, Character, Pretty)
"We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Sex, Eating, Extreme, Pretty, Violence, World)
"Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career."
- Mark Ruffalo
(Related: Love, Career, Decisions, Pretty)
"I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do."
- Geoffrey Rush
(Related: Business, Thought, Anxiety, Pretty, Stress, Thinking, Wrong)
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Man, Pretty)
"It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty."
- Keri Russell
(Related: Being, Girls, Pretty)
"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."
- Richard Russo
(Related: Care, Pretty)
"I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges."
- Richard Russo
(Related: Work, People, Grudges, Pretty, Self, Want, Writing)
"My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick!"
- Lee Ryan
(Related: Love, Conversation, Pretty)
"People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Movies, People, Insult, Pretty, Waiting, Want, Woman)
"It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future."
- Winona Ryder
(Related: Positive, Future, Pretty, Question)
"There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully."
- Fred Saberhagen
(Related: Work, Character, Computer, Limitations, Pretty)
"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
- Joe Sacco
(Related: Information, Pretty)
"My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well."
- Joe Sacco
(Related: People, Palestine, Pretty, Trying)
"I'm a pretty emotional person."
- Katey Sagal
(Related: Pretty)
"I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff."
- Bob Saget
(Related: Love, Daughters, Fun, Pretty, Reality)
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
- J. D. Salinger
(Related: Love, Time, Girls, Hell, Pretty)
"If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to."
- Eric San
(Related: Music, Dad, American, Influence, Jazz, Pretty, Rest, Silly)
"When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Poetry, Hair, Midnight, Poor, Pretty, Writing)
"That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Soul, Childhood, Job, May, Pretty)
"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved."
- Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin
(Related: Choice, Nothing, Pretty, Woman)
"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."
- John Sayles
(Related: Draft, First, Pretty, Writing)
"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable."
- Michael Scheuer
(Related: Being, Destruction, Osama bin laden, Pretty, states, United)
"For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important."
- Bob Schieffer
(Related: People, American, Earth, Information, Job, Now, Pretty)
"John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations."
- Wally Schirra
(Related: Politics, Pretty, Public, Publicity)
"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
- Wally Schirra
(Related: Acquaintance, Man, Pretty)
"The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous."
- Fred Schneider
(Related: Pretty)
"Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Party, Pretty, Republican, Right)
"Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done."
- Ridley Scott
(Related: Home, People, Pretty, Today, World)
"I do a pretty good job at casting actually."
- Ridley Scott
(Related: Job, Pretty)
"Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex."
- John Sculley
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick."
- Jon Secada
(Related: Music, College, Pretty, Quick, Right, School, Study)
"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."
- Jon Secada
(Related: Wedding, Pretty)
"More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady."
- Amy Sedaris
(Related: Men, Women, Lady, Girls, Pretty, Ugly)
"But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty."
- Amy Sedaris
(Related: People, Play, Pretty, Ugly)
"I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there."
- Amy Sedaris
(Related: People, Hate, Pretty)
"I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it."
- Jason Segel
(Related: Adventure, First, Kids, Pretty)
"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."
- Jerry Seinfeld
(Related: Body, Now, Pretty)
"I live a pretty simple life."
- Tom Selleck
(Related: Life, Pretty)
"I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well."
- Kate Seredy
(Related: Money, Heart, Balance, Books, Listening, Pretty)
"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."
- Brian Setzer
(Related: Now, Pretty, Sun)
"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in."
- Dr. Seuss
(Related: Pretty)
"It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material."
- Ben Shahn
(Related: Influence, Measure, Pretty)
"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
- Shakira
(Related: Truth, Lie, Heart, Pretty, Ugly, Will)
"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
- Donna Shalala
(Related: Pretty)
"I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right."
- Garry Shandling
(Related: Pretty, Right)
"In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers."
- Alia Shawkat
(Related: Being, Network, Opinion, Pretty)
"What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money."
- Charlie Sheen
(Related: Dad, Money, Care, Childhood, Job, Pretty, Relatives)
"Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Pretty)
"So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Pretty, Song)
"I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Pretty)
"I started playing music at a pretty young age."
- Duncan Sheik
(Related: Age, Music, Pretty)
"I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student."
- Alan Shepard
(Related: Science, Mind, Pretty)
"We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music."
- Mike Shinoda
(Related: Music, Pretty, Snobbery)
"I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: People, Opportunity, Company, Entertainment, Media, Pretty, Want, World)
"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."
- Hugh Sidey
(Related: Life, Humor, Heart, Deep, Joy, Laughter, Pretty, Sense)
"Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings."
- Josh Silver
(Related: Pretty)
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
- Dan Simmons
(Related: Curriculum, Improvement, Pretty, Years)
"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."
- Carly Simon
(Related: Pretty, Songs)
"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
- Herbert Simon
(Related: Technology, May, Pretty, Questions)
"People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it."
- Frank Sinatra
(Related: Talent, People, Chance, Luck, Pretty, Right)
"They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences."
- Peter Singer
(Related: Circumstances, Consequences, May, Pretty, Will)
"I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two."
- Vijay Singh
(Related: Now, Pretty)
"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun."
- Christian Siriano
(Related: Love, Politics, Design, Boys, Culture, Environment, Fashion, Fun, Gay, Pretty)
"I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people."
- Jennifer Sky
(Related: People, Actors, Pretty)
"As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things."
- Christian Slater
(Related: Life, Balance, Now, Pretty, Right)
"I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are."
- Grace Slick
(Related: Life, Friends, Parents, Pretty)
"We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians."
- Chad Smith
(Related: Jazz, Musicians, Pretty, Songs, Writing)
"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."
- Patti Smith
(Related: England, Horses, Pretty)
"Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper."
- Jimmy Smits
(Related: Pretty)
"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television."
- Brittany Snow
(Related: Life, People, Play, Pretty, Television)
"I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty."
- Brittany Snow
(Related: Birthday, Time, Parents, Pretty)
"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
- Eric Snow
(Related: Pretty)
"The global economy is in pretty good shape."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Economy, Pretty)
"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
- Steven Soderbergh
(Related: Key, Pretty)
"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."
- Steven Soderbergh
(Related: Pretty)
"I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!"
- Marla Sokoloff
(Related: Teen, Pretty)
"I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal."
- Bubba Sparxxx
(Related: Fans, Pretty)
"Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know."
- Bubba Sparxxx
(Related: Fans, Pretty)
"I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show."
- Aaron Spelling
(Related: People, Hope, Drugs, Pretty, Problems)
"I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us."
- Latrell Sprewell
(Related: Thought, Meetings, Pretty)
"And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say."
- Latrell Sprewell
(Related: Time, Energy, Fire, First, Pretty)
"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."
- Rick Springfield
(Related: Pretty, School)
"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
- Bruce Springsteen
(Related: Son, Day, Guitar, Pretty, Want)
"I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly."
- Bruce Springsteen
(Related: Music, Ideas, Pretty, Silly)
"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
- Bruce Springsteen
(Related: Pretty)
"So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team."
- Steve Spurrier
(Related: Coach, Day, Meeting, Pretty)
"Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear."
- Nick Stahl
(Related: Hope, Magic, Man, Pretty)
"I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop."
- John Starks
(Related: Now, Pretty, Rivalry)
"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: Pretty, Sculpture)
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
- John Steinbeck
(Related: Ideas, Pretty)
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
- George Stephen
(Related: Thought, Books, Pretty, Reading, Sound, Writing)
"No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money."
- McLean Stevenson
(Related: Money, Pretty)
"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Pretty)
"I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it."
- Kristen Stewart
(Related: Credit, Girls, Name, Pretty, Twilight)
"That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it."
- Stephen Stills
(Related: Thought, Harmony, Pretty, Song)
"I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced."
- Sting
(Related: Perspective, Pretty)
"I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me."
- Yvonne Strahovski
(Related: Day, Pretty, School, Students, Teachers)
"I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude."
- Yvonne Strahovski
(Related: Pretty, Talk)
"I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt."
- David Strathairn
(Related: Time, Pretty, Research)
"Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe."
- Sherry Stringfield
(Related: Clothes, Pretty)
"You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do."
- Mark Strong
(Related: Job, Now, Options, Past, Pretty, Road)
"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!"
- Joe Strummer
(Related: America, Beer, Pretty, Singing)
"I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book."
- Joe Strummer
(Related: American, Now, Pretty, Thinking)
"In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set."
- Gloria Stuart
(Related: Pretty)
"I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell."
- William Styron
(Related: Day, Feeling, Hell, Pain, Pleasure, Pretty, Writing)
"My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick."
- Pat Summerall
(Related: Pretty)
"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Music, Pretty)
"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."
- Wanda Sykes
(Related: Being, Nothing, Pretty)
"Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression."
- Stuart Symington
(Related: Depression, Pretty, Years)
"Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well."
- Ice T
(Related: Man, Pretty)
"Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Freedom, Pretty, Trying)
"I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Home, Thought, Pretty)
"I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'."
- Channing Tatum
(Related: Truth, Thought, Christ, Pretty)
"I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible."
- Andy Taylor
(Related: Music, People, Order, Pretty, Reason, Songs, Today, Want)
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
- Elizabeth Taylor
(Related: People, Pretty, Vices)
"Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother."
- Jane Taylor
(Related: Kiss, Mother, Help, Pretty)
"I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky."
- Rod Taylor
(Related: First, Pretty)
"The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others."
- Rod Taylor
(Related: Successful, Fact, Pretty)
"A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then."
- John Templeton
(Related: Army, Pretty, Today)
"We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'"
- Studs Terkel
(Related: Hope, Day, Pretty, Tomorrow, Word)
"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
- Margaret Thatcher
(Related: Work, Hard work, Pretty, Will)
"Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves."
- Paul Theroux
(Related: Nerves, Pretty, Writing)
"Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive."
- Brandon Thomas
(Related: Music, Positive, Pretty, Want)
"Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves."
- Brandon Thomas
(Related: Pretty, Punk)
"We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways."
- Evan Thomas
(Related: People, Pretty, Understanding)
"We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head."
- Marlo Thomas
(Related: Actions, Pretty, Words)
"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
- Emma Thompson
(Related: Effort, Mind, Pretty)
"It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us."
- Bobby Thomson
(Related: Pretty, Rivalry)
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Attention, End, Inventions, Pretty)
"I think we're all pretty odd."
- Michael Tippett
(Related: Pretty)
"I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!"
- Ashley Tisdale
(Related: Mom, Time, Thought, Pretty)
"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."
- Clyde Tombaugh
(Related: Work, Financial, Competition, Pretty)
"Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Pretty, Rules)
"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
- Mel Torme
(Related: Popular, Pretty, Song)
"If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it."
- Rip Torn
(Related: Love, People, Pretty, Sleep, Talking)
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: Linux, Pretty, Worry)