Prized Quotes

"Austin Powers was born out of trying to celebrate my father`s life. My father`s favorites were mine -- Peter Sellers, Monty Python, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore...My dad was a guy who loved to be silly; he had a highly prized sense of humor. When I would bring friends home to play table hockey in the basement, if my dad didn`t think they were funny, he wouldn`t let them in the house. `They can`t come around,` he`d say. `They`re not bloody funny!`" - Biography, June 1999

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

A poet`s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

(asked to name her most prized possession:) "My cats. Bjorn and Brian Dennehy. They`re Abyssinian. They`re amazing, they`re really like dogs. I actually went to a psychic once, and she said, `You have two cats.` And I said, `Yes, I do.` And she said, `Yeah, there`s one in particular, he`s brown, he`s a deep thinker, that cat.` So every time I see Bjorn staring into the fire, I`m like, `Are you having deep thoughts, Bjorn?`" (February 2, 2003)

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

"I didn`t have enough sense to be scared. It was a contest to promote yo-yos. And i didn`t have a yo-yo, so this ment that they`d give me a yo-yo and I`d get to sing, which I loved to do, and I didn`t care why I did it. So, they gave me a yo-yo about a week in advance. I wasn`t very good with it, but I was good enough to do straight up-and-down, `See the World.` And then I learned to do `Around the World.` Those were to only tricks I could do, but I could do `em singin` "Potatoes are Cheaper/Tomatoes are Cheaper/Now`s The Time To Fall In Love." I won third prize, which was two tickets to come back and watch somebody else be foolish. But it was during the depression, and everything you got for nothing, well, you prized it."