Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tonight, when we were eating dinner, Marta said something that really knocked me for a loop. She said, ""I love carrots."" ""Good,"" I said as I gritted my teeth real hard. ""Then maybe you and carrots would like to go into the bedroom and have sex!"" They didn't, but maybe they will sometime, and I can watch.

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.

Anne Kelley

The bedrock of all this is: Do an audit.

Martin Evans

I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Ron Moody

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

Robert Greene

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

Robert Henri

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Simon Hoggart

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Richard Branson

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Richard Branson

Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

Sri Aurobindo

For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. If mind cannot by effort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transform mind into its own substance.

Stephen Colbert

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

Soulja Boy

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Peter Gabriel

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Paz Vega

I like small stories.

Phil Crosby

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Peter Carey

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

Robby Rodriguez

It probably did about $25,000 worth of damage.