Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Carlyle

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

Richard Powers

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Richard Rohr

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

Richard Karn

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

Tupac Shakur

Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

Tupac Shakur

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

Tupac Shakur

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

Sandra Bernhard

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

William Hung

I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

Reinhold Niebuhr

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

Vincent Van Gogh

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Terence McKenna

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Lewis Thomas

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Paul Theroux

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.