Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

Will Patton

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

Chris Hedges

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Neil Kurshan

It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.

Ray Comfort

All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

Nicholas A. Christakis

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

Granth Sahib

The 8.4 millions species of beings die, and die again, and are born over and over again.They are consigned to reincarnation.

Granth Sahib

The angelic beings and the silent sages long for Him; the True Guru has given me this understanding.

Sean Brady

I hope that everyone who believes that the right to life is fundamental will make their voice heard in a reasonable, but forthright, way to their representatives, reminding them that the right to life is conferred on human beings not by the powerful ones of this world but by the Creator.

Tim Holden

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Zakk Wylde

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

Evangeline Lilly

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

David Beckham

I love a nice tailored suit, but I also like to dress down. It all depends on what mood I'm in.

Donald Johanson

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Chrissie Hynde

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

J. Moore

The 30s are when most people receive their first whiff of mortality ... it's a time when you're first taking a look further on in your life ... depending on how you live in your 30s, the 40s is when it could all start to go horribly wrong.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

Norah Vincent

As you will see, being Ned was often an uncomfortable and alienating experience, and far from finding myself in him, I usually felt kept from myself in some elemental way.

Pankaj Mishra

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

William Shatner

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

Noam Chomsky

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Brian De Palma

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

John C. Calhoun

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

Pete Domenici

that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.

Patrick O'Brian

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

Mary Ellen Mark

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

Carolyn Porco

We have the smoking gun that proves the existence of water.

Sydney Smith

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Carrie Underwood

I consider myself not a celebrity. I'm a normal person that likes [doing] things on stage.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

Ashley Tisdale

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

David Wluka

The accelerated sales pace of recent years has all but ended, and we're returning to a more normal market.

Chuck Kolner

We have a lot of members. It's something that we normally don't talk about.

M. Wolfe

will go up 94 percent from a normal Wednesday.

H. Munro

Will is doing really well. He is playing at No. 1 and he normally plays at No. 2.

Matt Brady

We have a terrific backcourt. Jared played his normal stellar game.

Bat for Lashes

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Randall Jarrell

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Martin O'Malley

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Adrianne Palicki

I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Darrell Bryan

If it requires a passport, we think they'll look for other options.

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Peter Berg

We were simply brushed off by MAF officials.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Martin Sheen

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Paul Henderson

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

Richard C. Armitage

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

Sun Myung Moon

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.