Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

William Weld

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Vincent Bugliosi

This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Colin Angle

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

Chris Bohjalian

I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Ed Aaron

Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason.

Rick Summer

We don't think a lot of money has flowed into some of these large-cap names. Perhaps investors have been looking for darling growth stories.

Charles Dibdin

Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,/ The darling of our crew.

Dan Klores

Henry Ford once said that the greatest characteristic about Americans is they forget. I think with Kobe, in another year or two he'll be well on his way back to being the darling of Madison Avenue. The guy has a special gift for playing basketball.

S. Walker

If they weren't playing Florida, I'd be pulling for them. That's how everyone feels. A team that has come so far like that is gonna be the darling of the tournament.

Seth Gabel

Before 'Fringe' I was in 'Dirty Sexy Money' playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.

Henry Carey

Of all the girls that are so smart / There's none like pretty Sally, / She is the darling of my heart, / And she lives in our alley.

Ruth Reichl

darling come into the kitchen, I need you.

Maggie Peterson

Not at all. Don wasn't anything like Barney. He was a very quiet man, and polite. He was the type of person who encouraged everyone - he was just a darling man.

Sarah Kay

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Mark Zuckerberg

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Bruce Cockburn

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.

Ha-Joon Chang

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

Ha-Joon Chang

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Chris Eigeman

I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.

LeBron James

I don't think so. I got the first two years out of the way, and that's when you usually do it. I don't want to be defined as being in the slam dunk contest, it's just not me.

Jim Nicholson

have defined my life, shaped my abilities and my desire to serve.

Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Brigitte Boisselier

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Jordan Gross

We need to be able to protect and get the passes off to make them back off.

Christian Moody

His passes were perfect. Look at his shooting. I think he's the best.

Sherill Baker

We deflected a lot of passes and turned them into transition baskets.

Tom Armstrong

We worked a lot on our high-low passes and our post players sealing. That worked well for us.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Mark Hagen

I think we just strung six passes together, ... That's what we need to do consistently.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Nell Fookes

She often comes through for us in big passes or getting big turnovers. Tonight, she had big plays.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Patricia Marx

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

Theodore White

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

Bill Richardson

will not tolerate the theft of our secrets.

Brandon Roy

I don't think it's a big secret that he'll be leaving.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Douglas Brinkley

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.