300 Quotes on Pretty

• Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

  Author: David Zucker

• Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Author: Dweezil Zappa

• And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

  Author: Robin Yount

• 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

• There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

  Author: Don Young

• Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.

  Author: Alan Young

• Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• My girlfriend claims that her last boyfriend was a better kisser than me and I have to admit, he is pretty good.

  Author: Dwight York

• I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

  Author: Dick York

• The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

  Author: Ron Wyden

• All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

  Author: John Woolman

• Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything will turn out to be fine and to be of stout heart and all that.

  Author: Rose Woods

• I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

  Author: James Woods

• I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

  Author: Roy Wood

• I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

  Author: Alastair Wood

• The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

  Author: Stephen Wolfram

• It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

  Author: Kathleen Winsor

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

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

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

  Author: Luke Wilson

• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  Author: Walter Williams

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

  Author: Serena Williams

• We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

  Author: Robin 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

• The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

  Author: Esther Williams

• Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

  Author: Eric Williams

• I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

  Author: Eric Williams

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  Author: William Wiley

• I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

  Author: William Wiley

• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

  Author: Christine Whitman

• 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

• One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

  Author: Bryan White

• If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

  Author: Edith Wharton

• 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

• He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

  Author: Shane West

• Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

  Author: Shane West

• It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.

  Author: David Wells

• 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

• My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

  Author: William Weld

• It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

  Author: Michael Welch

• I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

  Author: Johnny Weissmuller

• 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

• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  Author: Karrie Webb

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

  Author: Steve Waugh

• Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

  Author: James Watson

• I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

  Author: Barry Watson

• 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 do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

  Author: Joseph Wambaugh

• It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.

  Author: Mark Wahlberg

• The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• 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

• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Author: Miroslav Vitous

• There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

  Author: Boris Vian

• I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

  Author: Bill Veeck

• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  Author: Jack Vance

• Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

  Author: Holly Valance

• I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years.

  Author: Holly Valance

• I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

  Author: Karl Urban

• Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

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

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

  Author: Tina Turner

• I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.

  Author: Rachel True

• Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

  Author: Simon Travaglia

• Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

  Author: Thuy Trang

• I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• 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.

  Author: Rip Torn

• But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

  Author: Mel Torme

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

  Author: Bill Toomey

• 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.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• 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!

  Author: Ashley Tisdale

• I think we're all pretty odd.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• 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

• Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• 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.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• 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.

  Author: Evan Thomas

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Brandon Thomas

• Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

  Author: Paul Theroux

• 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.

  Author: Margaret Thatcher

• 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.'

  Author: Studs Terkel

• 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.

  Author: John Templeton

• 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.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• 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.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

  Author: Jane Taylor

• 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.

  Author: Elizabeth Taylor

• 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.

  Author: Andy Taylor

• 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'.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• 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.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• 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.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

  Author: Ice T

• 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.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

  Author: Andy Summers

• 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

• 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.

  Author: William Styron

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

  Author: Gloria Stuart

• 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.

  Author: Joe Strummer

• 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!

  Author: Joe Strummer

• Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

  Author: Sherry Stringfield

• 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.

  Author: David Strathairn

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

  Author: Yvonne Strahovski

• 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.

  Author: Yvonne Strahovski

• I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

  Author: Sting

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Stills

• 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.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

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

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

  Author: McLean Stevenson

• 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.

  Author: George Stephen

• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  Author: John Steinbeck

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

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• 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.

  Author: John Starks

• 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.

  Author: Nick Stahl

• 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.

  Author: Steve Spurrier

• 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 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.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• 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.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

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

  Author: Rick Springfield

• 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.

  Author: Latrell Sprewell

• 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.

  Author: Latrell Sprewell

• 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.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.

  Author: Bubba Sparxxx

• I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

  Author: Bubba Sparxxx

• 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!

  Author: Marla Sokoloff

• 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

• The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• The global economy is in pretty good shape.

  Author: John Snow

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Brittany Snow

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

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

  Author: Patti Smith

• 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.

  Author: Chad Smith

• I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

  Author: Jennifer Sky

• 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.

  Author: Christian Siriano

• I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.

  Author: Vijay Singh

• 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.

  Author: Peter Singer

• 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.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• 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.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• 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 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.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• We learned pretty early on in this band that you can't have snobbery in music.

  Author: Mike Shinoda

• 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.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• I started playing music at a pretty young age.

  Author: Duncan Sheik

• 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

• In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.

  Author: Alia Shawkat

• 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

• I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

  Author: Shakira

• It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

  Author: Ben Shahn

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

  Author: Dr. Seuss

• 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.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

  Author: Kate Seredy

• 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.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• 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.

  Author: Jason Segel

• But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

  Author: Amy Sedaris

• More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

  Author: Amy Sedaris

• It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

  Author: Jon Secada

• 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.

  Author: Jon Secada

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

  Author: John Sculley

• 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.

  Author: Charles Schumer

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

  Author: Fred Schneider

• 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!

  Author: Wally Schirra

• 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.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• 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.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• 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.

  Author: John Sayles

• 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.

  Author: Jean Savarin

• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• 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.

  Author: Eric San

• 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.

  Author: J. Salinger

• 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.

  Author: Bob Saget

• I'm a pretty emotional person.

  Author: Katey Sagal

• 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.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• 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.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• 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.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• 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.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• 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!

  Author: Lee Ryan

• 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.

  Author: Richard Russo

• I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

  Author: Richard Russo

• It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

  Author: Keri Russell

• When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

  Author: John Ruskin

• 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.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• 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.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• 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.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• 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.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

  Author: Mike Rounds

• 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 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.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

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

  Author: Gavin Rossdale

• 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.

  Author: Diana Ross

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

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Root

• 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.

  Author: Dave Ronk

• The game-playing market today is pretty sizable.

  Author: John Romero

• I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory.

  Author: Cesar Romero

• 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.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• 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.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

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

  Author: Roy Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Richard Rogers

• 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.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• 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

• I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

  Author: Kid Rock

• 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!

  Author: Kid Rock

• 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.

  Author: Bryan Robson

• 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.

  Author: Brooks Robinson

• 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.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Nora Roberts

• I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

  Author: Nora Roberts

• 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.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• 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.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

  Author: Ann Richards

• Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

  Author: Adam Rich

• 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.

  Author: Anne Rice

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Ruggiero Ricci

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

  Author: Mary Retton

• Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

  Author: Jules Renard

• 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.

  Author: Richard Reeves

• Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

  Author: Lou Reed

• 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.

  Author: Robert Redford

• The competition is pretty rough these days.

  Author: Tony Randall

• 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.

  Author: Charlotte Rampling

• I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• 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.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• 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

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  Author: Ted Rall

• 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.

  Author: Glenn Quinn

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

  Author: Robert Quine

• 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.

  Author: Robert Quine

• I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

  Author: Big Pun

• Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• 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.

  Author: Charley Pride

• I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

  Author: Charley Pride

• Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

  Author: Jacques Prevert

• 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.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

  Author: George Prentice

• 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.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

  Author: Colin Powell

• 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.

  Author: Chaim Potok

• But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

  Author: Jon Postel

• 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.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• 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.

  Author: Gail Porter

• When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

  Author: Paulina Porizkova

• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• 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 mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

  Author: Frederik Pohl

• 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 feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

  Author: Mike Piazza

• 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.

  Author: John Phillips

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Liz Phair

• 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.

  Author: Cassandra Peterson

• 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.

  Author: William Petersen

• 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.

  Author: Thomas Perry

• Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

  Author: Thomas Perry

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