Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

I don't look like who I am.

Jane Goodall

I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

Aimee Mullins

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Craig Ferguson

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

Brandi Carlile

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

Brooke Burke

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

Alyson Stoner

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

Amanda Bynes

I know who I am supposed to be with. Im just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I want to be so sure of everything in my life and be so good on my own that someone just comes in to compliment it. I want somebody who is happy. I dont want to meet someone who needs me. I want someone who is good on his own.

Drew Brees

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

Johnathon Schaech

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Karlos Dansby

People really dont know or they really aint watching, ... Got to give them something to see.

Howard Dvorkin

People spend what's there. If it's not there, they're not going to spend it.

David Toung

People sometimes take a very short-term view of things.

Kevin Spacey

People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Archie Panjabi

A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augustine Birrell

It can never be wrong to give pleasure.

Arthur Mitchell

What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.

Aziz Ansari

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.

Ayelet Waldman

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.