Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Dianna Agron

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

David Allan Coe

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Charlie Hunnam

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

Cecile Richards

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Carolyn Maloney

Where are the women? The women are here.

Chelsea Handler

I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' . . . You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Charlie Chaplin

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

Charles Darwin

I am not the least afraid to die

Demi Lovato

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

Demi Lovato

Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.

Demi Lovato

You're beautifully and wonderfully made.

Demi Lovato

Be proud of who you are.

Imelda May

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Idina Menzel

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Zaha Hadid

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.