Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Scott-Heron

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

Raymond Moody

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.

Don Yaeger

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

David Letterman

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.

David Eagleman

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Bruce Armstrong

We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of the project, of what we are building, so they have a visual understanding of the setting and the backdrop.

Lynne Salisbury

We have about 45 artists in the show this year. They usually each show two pieces.

Miranda Lambert

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

David Nathan

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Rascal Flatts

To get all the country music artists in one place at one time (means) you also can get autographs and pictures if you want. It's awesome, because all the artists and all the fans are right there together, which never happens otherwise during the year.

Rep. Detert

We have a problem in Florida and a lack of money generally prevents you from solving a problem. We have the money, we just have to think of creative solutions to solve the problem.

Kofi Annan

creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.

Robert Morgan

Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It seems like the better we feed them, the more creative they are.

Donna Karan

Every problem has a creative solution.

Steven Levitan

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

Tim Berners-Lee

A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.

Skylar Grey

I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

Sissy Spacek

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

John Scofield

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Tom Hiddleston

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Lana Turner

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Patricia Richardson

When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.

Gary Hatch

He's been one of my hall of fame guys. Stephen worked his tail off to become a starter. It didn't happen until his senior year.

Jerry Colangelo

He was looking though the glass at the photos that were up on the wall in their hall of fame. He said, 'Dad, I want to come here and do what you did to follow you.' I said, 'No, Bryan. That was my life. You're going to have to live your own life.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Ryne Sandberg

With those numbers that he has, those plateaus, that's Hall of Fame right there. As far as I'm concerned, he's in on the first ballot.

Petrarch

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

Brendan Shanahan

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Edgar Allan Poe

Invisible things are the only realities.

Tina Yothers

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

Stephen King

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Mason Cooley

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Michael Copps

Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.

Martha Plimpton

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

Jay Leno

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Hideyuki Suzuki

A rally in US shares (overnight) led the market here.

Joker Phillips

I've never seen Tony Dixon work like he has this past off-season. He led all the drills. He was in the weight room. He was even there when he wasn't scheduled to be.

Alan Stern

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Jeff Jodon

It was a solid team effort, led by the throwers. They were just steadfast.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Vitruvius

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

Lia Ices

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Dorothy Allison

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Alberto Manguel

Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.

Albert Einstein

God is a scientist, not a magician.

Joshua Malina

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

Chris Dixon

There's no question that Michael Ovitz is an extraordinarily talented person in Hollywood,

Jeff Overton

I don't even know what to think yet. Michael Putnam and I waited all summer to turn pro to play in this. Man, it was worth it.

The Children

I know it's the first time I've ever shared one with Michael Domino.

John Shelton

Randy is qualified as a police officer for the state of Ohio, If he's called, he has got to go.

Jan Egeland

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Charles Spurgeon

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Dick Van Dyke

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

Edward Snowden

I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong,

Clint Eastwood

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Donald Trump

While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people.

Donald Trump

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

Ashton Kutcher

From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Brendan Fraser

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Brenda Ueland

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Carl von Clausewitz

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Bryant H. McGill

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Cesar Chavez

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

Al Franken

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

Charles Colson

The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

Charles Darwin

Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?

Brett Ratner

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'

Brett Ratner

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Benito Mussolini

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.