Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Bruce Schneier

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.

Julie Walters

I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.

Raza Jaffrey

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

Rose Byrne

The British are so funny.

Bruce Beehler

It really was like crossing some sort of time warp into a place that people hadn't been to.

James Detorre

They're really crossing their fingers because disposable income is so low.

John Vinocur

Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.

Mark Davies

Drivers are to yield the right of way to the train. No matter what the kind of railroad crossing warning it is. . . . All mean the same thing.

Jim Walton

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Margarita Romo

We do not want terrorists or drug dealers crossing the frontier, either. We have to look for a way to help those people who have been living here for many years.

Denise Tyrrell

We don't really know what her motivations were. Right now we only know what the results are. Drivers need to take very seriously a crossing arm.

Randy Reid

There could even be a swap, with Hillcrest throwing in the land (on Highway 84) to purchase the property at Legends Crossing, though I don't know if the Legends Crossing people are motivated to do that deal,

Robbie Loomis

You go right up to the line. Some people are obviously crossing over it.

S. Walker

Any time you have the opportunity ... look, we all realize that we can get our butts handed to us in a heartbeat.

Loretta Ake

They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.

Josh Pastner

They kicked our butt last year (in Tucson), and we got lucky toward the end (in Pullman). They handed it to us last year.

Jared Leto

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Thaddeus Kennedy

She wasn't burned. But when we handed her over to EMS, she was pretty lifeless.

Felix Magath

We were so sure we were the better team, we were so sure we would score, then we were handed one ourselves.

Anson Mount

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Russ Reineke

What matters most is how we lived and loved between the dash.

Al Sevier

He was just a little bitty toddler when he lived here.

Mikael Tellqvist

I don't feel too much pressure like that (taking over as No.1). I've lived with it since I was 7 and I can live with it now.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

Vicky Gunderson

I read it and put it aside. Until I lived it, I didn't understand.

Shannon Hildreth

I lived in Louisiana. They (the recreation league) wouldn't let us play until we were 8.

Samantha Aldom

I lived here until I was 13, and since my dad's a member, I know a lot of them. It's nice going through this process with people you know.

Joe Mantello

I lived with a playwright for 12 years,

Linda Brown

I know one thing. If the commissioners lived in this park, it would have never had passed.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Michael Mayer

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

James Williams

Even the United States is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know.

Brad Bayne

We've had over 45 inquiries from 35 states in three weeks of being live with the web.

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.