Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

You hear so much just about the danger and the fear and then you come here and you meet just an amazing people. Given just a little chance, and given a little help, this is going to be a great country.

Kevin Essington

I feel like this is an amazing town with amazing leadership.

Lou Reed

His amazing band contributes to one extraordinary experience of musical wit, depth and, most of all, beauteous heart.

David Hasselhoff

I'm trying to document all the amazing things that have happened to me. It's about facing your fears and using your power in a positive way.

Kole McKamey

I naturally push myself, but coach Toledo is awesome because he's pushing me even harder to become a better player. He has a pretty complex pro-style offense. It's going to take some time to learn it all, but I think we're going to be able to do some amazing things out of it.

Woody Harrelson

I'm the only guy in my family, including our cats and dogs. I'm surrounded by these amazing women, and I have concerns about what happens to them in the world,

Paul Allen

I'm not sure it has completely sunk in yet, but there is just a great feeling of warmth and satisfaction and joy, especially for all of the fans that have followed the team. You heard them out there today. Just to be part of that and to bring an NFC championship to Seattle, how amazing is that?

Peter Capaldi

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

Larry Brown

I'm hopeful he wants to be here and be part of this. His role won't be the same as when I coached him, but he is such a character guy and has such a presence in the locker room that his value will be amazing ... I was with Tony, and you won't find many guys better than him.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Alanis Morissette

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Chin-Ning Chu

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Cher

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Stephen Covey

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Stendhal

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

Stendhal

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stanislav Grof

LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

Stanislav Grof

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

Spike Lee

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

Spike Lee

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Simon Cowell

If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now.

Sigourney Weaver

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.

Christian Siriano

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Helen Gurley Brown

We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

Hedy Lamarr

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Heather Mills

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

Mandy Patinkin

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Mandy Patinkin

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

Malcolm Mclaren

Try managing a junkie - especially if you've never been one yourself.

Malcolm X

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

Malcolm Gladwell

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.