Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bristol Palin

Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

Alexander McCall Smith

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Alex Kingston

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

Debi Mazar

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Debi Mazar

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

E. L. Konigsburg

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

E. M. Forster

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo

Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Victor Hugo

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Amy Sedaris

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Kenneth Koch

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Keanu Reeves

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Oprah Winfrey

Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’

Kelly Cutrone

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

Kathy Ireland

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

Kathryn Bigelow

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

Paul Young

The journey is the destination. The process you're in is the goal. Success is never defined by the outcome but by the process.

Mel Gibson

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.