Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Terry Wilczek

We had our hands full with him last year. He's a good player. But it looks like they have a fair number of playmakers.

Doug Smith

The logistics of moving to and from the fair is a big deal. It's a huge undertaking.

Steve Cavezza

All of the guys in my fraternity are my brothers. You want to give everyone a fair shot. It's very hard to those seniors that might not get a chance.

Prince Harry

It's fair to say that if his squadron goes to Iraq, he will probably go with it.

Melvin Maddocks

A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.

Bill Elliott

A lot of this sounds like we're talking in circles, but we have to get through phase one, ... There's nothing that's not fair game when we get to phase two.

Rajesh Jain

This is a fair listing keeping in mind the Reliance pedigree. It is a strong option for investors in the telecom space.

Rob Brzezinski

It's not on Zygi. He's been apprised of everything going on in this organization. He hired people to run the business, and he would do anything to make us successful. This is a business/football decision. It's not fair to tag it on Zygi. If it was anybody's decision, it was mine.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Robert Williamson

It's not that I'm trying to be greedy. It's the principle of it. If you're injured, the regulations state you're to be given this medal.

John Burroughs

It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.

Adrian Benepe

This park was taken away for construction of the tunnel and never given back. We unpaved a parking lot and put up a paradise.

Girish Tyagi

There were no major surprises and that actually is good news, given that the recent surprises for the sector have been of the wrong kind.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Keith Tucker

They haven't given up, ... That is what I like about them.

David White

Our victim got all but $250 back of the $90,000 she had given him. The other lady got about one-third of her money ($50,000) back - that was all we could trace. It's quite unusual to get money back - it's usually gone but we got lucky.

Frederic Ruffy

The pattern has given rise to the adage, 'Sell in May and go away' with respect to stocks.

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Douglas Coupland

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Adam Savage

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Adam Carolla

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

Adam Carolla

Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.

Anna Wintour

Go get a job. Whether it’s working as a designer or working in a restaurant and then doing your own thing in your own time, it’s a reality of life. In the end it’s going to be helpful to you and so many others.

Angus T. Jones

Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.

Anish Kapoor

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Siddha Nagarjuna

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Adrian Edmondson

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Clara Barton

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Alexander Pope

Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

Alexander Pope

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Alex Haley

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Albert Schweitzer

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

Debby Ryan

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.

Kerry Washington

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Mahatma Gandhi

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

Mahatma Gandhi

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Mahatma Gandhi

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

James Joyce

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

George Farquhar

How a little love and good company improves a woman.