187 Quotes on Pretty

• I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

  Author: Loretta Young

• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.

  Author: Luke Wilson

• I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

  Author: Serena Williams

• I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

  Author: Hank Williams

• PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated.

  Author: John Whiting

• It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

  Author: Meg White

• The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

  Author: Timothy West

• We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.

  Author: David Wells

• I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

  Author: Orson Welles

• Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

  Author: Gene Ween

• It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

  Author: Steve Waugh

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.

  Author: John Warnock

• No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

  Author: Sela Ward

• I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• I think we're all pretty odd.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• 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.

  Author: Bobby Thomson

• 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.

  Author: Brandon Thomas

• 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.

  Author: Pat Summerall

• In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  Author: Yvonne Strahovski

• Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• 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.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.

  Author: Rick Springfield

• 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.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• 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.

  Author: Eric Snow

• Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

  Author: Carly Simon

• Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.

  Author: Josh Silver

• I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule.

  Author: Donna Shalala

• You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

  Author: Dr. Seuss

• Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.

  Author: John Sculley

• The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

  Author: Fred Schneider

• I'm a pretty emotional person.

  Author: Katey Sagal

• 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.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• 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.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.

  Author: John Romero

• I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

  Author: Roy Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• 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.

  Author: Oscar Robertson

• Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

  Author: Adam Rich

• 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.

  Author: Anne Rice

• As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

  Author: Mary Retton

• 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.

  Author: Aron Ralston

• I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

  Author: Robert Quine

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• 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.

  Author: Frederick Pollock

• 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.

  Author: Jeremy Piven

• 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.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• 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.

  Author: Michael Phelps

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  Author: Rachel Perry

• I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

  Author: Roger Penrose

• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

  Author: Krist Novoselic

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Nolan

• I was a pretty feisty young kid.

  Author: John Newcombe

• I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.

  Author: George Murphy

• 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.

  Author: Martin Mull

• Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.

  Author: Mary Moore

• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  Author: A. Milne

• I'm pretty much a couch potato.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.

  Author: Shannon Miller

• 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.

  Author: Jonathan Miller

• Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

  Author: Johnny Miller

• 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.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

  Author: Christine McVie

• The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

  Author: Michael McKean

• 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.

  Author: David McCullough

• She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  Author: W. Maugham

• It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn't bad, but qualifying would take your breath.

  Author: Sterling Marlin

• These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

  Author: Wellington Mara

• I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

  Author: Shirley Manson

• They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

  Author: James MacArthur

• My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

  Author: David Lynch

• I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.

  Author: Tina Louise

• I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

  Author: Cody Linley

• The last few years have been pretty hectic.

  Author: Frank Langella

• 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.

  Author: Alan Ladd

• 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.

  Author: Jack Kilby

• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  Author: Al Jourgensen

• Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

  Author: Waylon Jennings

• I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

  Author: Thomas Jane

• I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

  Author: Joseph Jackson

• I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

  Author: Janet Jackson

• 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.

  Author: Jason Isaacs

• Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

  Author: Paul Ince

• When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

  Author: Kate Hudson

• It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

  Author: Philip Hoffman

• 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.

  Author: Martina Hingis

• 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.

  Author: Andy Hertzfeld

• I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

  Author: Don Henley

• Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

  Author: Eric Heiden

• 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.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

  Author: Zac Hanson

• With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

  Author: Dashiell Hammett

• 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.

  Author: Steve Guttenberg

• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  Author: Rachel Griffiths

• I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

  Author: Melanie Griffith

• 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.

  Author: Mary Grandpre

• I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

  Author: Mark-Paul Gosselaar

• 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.

  Author: Rob Glaser

• 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.

  Author: Sara Gilbert

• I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television.

  Author: Sara Gilbert

• If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

  Author: Bob Geldof

• Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

  Author: Martin Fry

• In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

  Author: John Frusciante

• Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

  Author: Clement Freud

• I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

  Author: John Frankenheimer

• 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.

  Author: James Franco

• 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.

  Author: Renee Fleming

• 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.

  Author: Jon Fishman

• Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

  Author: Jon Fishman

• 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.

  Author: Harvey Fierstein

• 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.

  Author: Brian Ferneyhough

• I'm pretty boring really.

  Author: Brett Favre

• David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.

  Author: Richard Farnsworth

• 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.

  Author: Frances Farmer

• 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.

  Author: Shawn Fanning

• 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.

  Author: Jimmy Fallon

• I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

  Author: Shannon Elizabeth

• But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

  Author: Dick Dyke

• High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

  Author: Robert Duvall

• All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

  Author: Jermaine Dupri

• Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

  Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: Lexa Doig

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  Author: Cameron Diaz

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  Author: Jack Dempsey

• I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

  Author: Jeffery Deaver

• I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

  Author: Robin Day

• Archers are pretty focused.

  Author: Geena Davis

• I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

  Author: Thayer David

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Darden

• I'm pretty outspoken.

  Author: Miley Cyrus

• I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

  Author: Catie Curtis

• It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

  Author: Marion Cotillard

• I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

  Author: Gary Cole

• 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.

  Author: Bram Cohen

• 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.

  Author: Guy Clark

• I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

  Author: Thomas Church

• I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

  Author: Mary Cheney

• Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.

  Author: Mary Cheney

• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  Author: Salmon Chase

• I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.

  Author: Dick Cavett

• It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

  Author: Mary Carpenter

• 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.

  Author: Gabriel Byrne

• 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.

  Author: Amanda Bynes

• It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

  Author: Julie Burchill

• I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

  Author: Bobby Bonilla

• Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

  Author: Eric Bogosian

• I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

  Author: Orlando Bloom

• Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding.

  Author: Wolf Blitzer

• I think I am pretty much melancholic.

  Author: Juliette Binoche

• Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

  Author: Jason Biggs

• The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

  Author: Jello Biafra

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  Author: Yogi Berra

• We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

  Author: Michael Bergin

• Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

  Author: Charlie Bell

• Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

  Author: Brendan Behan

• 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.

  Author: Beck

• It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

  Author: Max Baucus

• In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

  Author: Christine Baranski

• 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.

  Author: Lester Bangs

• 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.

  Author: Steve Ballmer

• To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

  Author: Sebastian Bach

• Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

  Author: Will Arnett

• I am pretty self-indulgent.

  Author: Francesca Annis

• I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

  Author: Laurie Anderson

• But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

  Author: Mose Allison

• In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.

  Author: Ted Allen

• 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.

  Author: Gary Allan

• Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

  Author: Jack Adams

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