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.
~By Dave Mustaine ~
Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
~By Margot Kidder ~
My life was pretty rough.
~By Yoko Ono ~
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.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
~By Yvonne Strahovski ~
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
~By Nora Roberts ~
I criticize my own work pretty harshly.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.
~By Nikki Cox ~
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.
~By Hank Williams ~
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!
~By Wally Schirra ~
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.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
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.
~By David Cronenberg ~
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.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
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.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
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.
~By Martin Mull ~
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
~By Colin Powell ~
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.
~By Anthony Holden ~
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.
~By George Barr McCutcheon ~
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.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.
~By Martin Milner ~
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.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
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.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.
~By Shannon Miller ~
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.
~By Dan Butler ~
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
I am pretty self-indulgent.
~By Francesca Annis ~
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.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
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.
~By Steve Nash ~
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
~By Bernie Ebbers ~
I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
~By Shakira ~
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!
~By Lee Ryan ~
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.
~By John Hawkes ~
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.
~By Rob Glaser ~
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.
~By Kristin Chenoweth ~
We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.
~By Sean Kinney ~
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
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.
~By Sam Waterston ~
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.
~By Diane Kruger ~
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.
~By Debbie Gibson ~
Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
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.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~
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.
~By Laura Kightlinger ~
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.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
"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.
~By Bo Derek ~
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
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.
~By Diane Johnson ~
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
I do a pretty good job at casting actually.
~By Ridley Scott ~
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
~By David Brinkley ~
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.
~By Brian May ~
It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
~By Marion Cotillard ~
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.
~By John Sayles ~
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.
~By Lois Capps ~
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.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
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.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
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.
~By Jana Novotna ~
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.
~By Chad Smith ~
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.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
~By Eli Wallach ~
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.
~By David McCullough ~
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
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.
~By David Knopfler ~
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.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.
~By Marion Jones ~
Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
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.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
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.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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.
~By Rod Taylor ~
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.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
~By David R. Ellis ~
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.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
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.
~By William Wiley ~
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.
~By Chaim Potok ~
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.
~By Paula Abdul ~
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.
~By Veronica Lake ~
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.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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.
~By Lou Gramm ~
The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.
~By Jello Biafra ~
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
~By Denzel Washington ~
But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
~By Jon Postel ~
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.
~By Winona Ryder ~
Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.
~By Caroline Corr ~
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
~By Paul Theroux ~
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.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
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.
~By John F. Kerry ~
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.
~By Herbert Simon ~
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.
~By Jason Biggs ~
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
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.
~By Brooks Robinson ~
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?
~By Tommy Lasorda ~
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.
~By Mike Lowry ~
I think we're all pretty odd.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
~By Don Henley ~
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.
~By John Anderson ~
Our show proves that some pretty incredible things can happen when people come together.
~By Ty Pennington ~
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.
~By Donal Logue ~
The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
~By Walter Matthau ~
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