Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Bosworth

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Jamie Lee Curtis

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

Dennis Quaid

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

Bridget Moynahan

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

Brian McDermott

I don't regret anything.

Dale Carnegie

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O last regret, regret can die!

Dorothy L. Sayers

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Sylvia Earle

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

Avery Johnson

I still think this can be a special season, but right now we are sputtering.

Bruno Mars

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Jaromir Jagr

For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.

George C. Williams

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Christopher Eccleston

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Chris Rock

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

Herman Cain

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

Graham Chapman

In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.