Descriptors Examples Quotes & Sayings

I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try that. Hey, mom, I want to be on TV!' And she's like, 'OK, let's get you an agent.' — Benjamin Stockham

We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it. — John Oliver

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs and stuff - not a natural gig-er. — Amy Hoggart

You are only as pretty as you are nice and smart. — Brooke Shields

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology — John Piper

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive. — G.K. Chesterton

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it. — Billy Crystal

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence. — Clive Barker

Thoreau once said if you see a man approach you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life; it is hard to restrain the impulse in talking with social engineers. — William H. Whyte

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle. — Robert Merrill

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware. — Yukimi Nagano

Rebecca uttered a low dry laugh, not facetiously, but more like a stitch coming apart at the seam. A wound opened. Her eyes were opening to a world she had denied for so long. She looked up at Frank and knew, just like in the books, hatred, real hatred is a Gollum that hides under the mountain of our hearts. It buries itself deep underground where no light can touch. And it waits. Rebecca thought of Tolkien and Bilbo and Frodo and that old grey wizard, she thought that maybe they were right. Perhaps "there are older and fouler things in the deep places of the world - in the deep places of our hearts." And as she sat on the floor with Tom Johnson's Glock aimed at her husband's head, Rebecca looked into the space where his eyes should have been. She looked at what was now only darkness and felt something on the other side, something not her husband, looking back. — Thomas S. Flowers

I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire ... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise and be annoying? — Vera Nazarian

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better. — Anita Roddick