Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Cummings

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

Reba McEntire

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Roger Ebert

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

Yancy Butler

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Yancy Butler

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

Kelis

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Mika

I love collaborating with strong women.

Priyanka Chopra

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

Portia de Rossi

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Sam Altman

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

William Orbit

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

Yaphet Kotto

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

Louise Erdrich

I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

Mark Haddon

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Paulo Coelho

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Shirin Ebadi

When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

Seth

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

Neil Peart

If you want something done right, just forget it.

Paul Wolfowitz

He's always been excruciatingly careful, which is ironic in his situation.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Raymond Chandler

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

Ronnie Wood

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Tom Brennan

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Friedrich Schiller

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

Lu Xun

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

Eric Idle

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.