Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Stanwyck

A star is only as good as her last picture.

Brian Andreas

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

Channing Tatum

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Diana Wynne Jones

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

Damon Lindelof

Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.

Craig Ferguson

I wanted to be a rock star.

Brian Chesky

I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Brent Spiner

I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show Star Trek: The Next Generation. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma.

Booker T. Washington

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Brandon Sanderson

It's like a banana farm for guns!

Benito Mussolini

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Al Capone

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Gore

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Brady Corbet

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

Brian Williams

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?

Charles Bukowski

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

Eddie Vedder

Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better!

Tom Izzo

As I look at that situation, I feel for Mike Davis. I really do. I think he has been under the gun a lot more than maybe he should have been.