Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Imelda May

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

Ian Mckellen

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Donald Trump

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Idina Menzel

I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.

Isco

When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

Garry Hynes

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

Wendy Kopp

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

Feist

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

Mattie Stepanek

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

Shani Davis

Michael Jordan's sport is done everywhere in the world.

Steve Spurrier

You just try to get your players ready, ... We just went and tried to get our players ready to play everywhere we went, and that's what we'll try to do here.

Hamdi Ulukaya

You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

Thomas Carlyle

The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.

Yahya Jammeh

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Harvey Rosenthal

The only reason they're putting them there is that mental health law allows them to.

Barry O'Farrell

If you've stacked on the weight over time, and if you don't have any health issues, you don't realise. So you'll see yourself in the mirror and, yes, you know what the scales say, but you don't actually see what other people see.

Barack Obama

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

Richard Lamm

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Bernadette Peters

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Ashley Tisdale

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Valerie June

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Brittany Snow

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Richard Daley

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Jennifer Shoaf

That we won with our defense, that's no surprise. North has better shooters than we do. We just hoped we could score enough to stay in the game, then win it with defense.

Mike Dee

We're very pleased with the way things are going. This has been everything we had hoped it would be.

Tim Lewis

We hoped that people who would come on a Wednesday would also give us a try on Sunday. It's been very successful.

Jim Saxton

Today we got everything we could have hoped for.

Phil Brady

We're not seeing the returns that we had hoped to.

Dan Rooney

I would have hoped there would have been more minority hires right now.

Ali Lacey

I'm a little better (this year). Not as much as I hoped to be, but I am a little better.

Roger Turner

I had hoped to retire in two years, and that's likely not possible now. I'm sure that's true for a lot of our members.

Jesse Owens

Just ironge the people who tend mock at you

Ann Fisher

When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of the whole notion of voluntary testing for pregnant women.

Bob Marley

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard

Richard Reeves

Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.

Tom Daschle

This isn't reform, ... This makes a mockery of McCain-Feingold.

Harper Lee

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Harper Lee

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Kian Egan

I know people mock us, but we do what we do. It is all about pop music and entertaining our fans. We don't pretend to be anything we are not, and while some may not like our music, there are plenty out there who do.

Joe Horn

The Saints aren't going to be the first team that they made a mockery of.

William Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

Benjamin Franklin

Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.

Bodhidharma

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Craig Johnson

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

A. R. Ammons

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

E. B. White

No trial has ever shown before a reduction in severe mortality with a new anti-malarial drug.

Marc Almond

I'm always aware of mortality.

Euripides

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Frederick Douglass

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Oswald Spengler

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Bryan Gulley

It's just not practical to think that can happen.

Conor Oberst

It's kind of a practical thing to do it this way,

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Isaac Brock

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kenenisa Bekele

The 3,000 meters record has stood for a long time.

Bob McAnally

That was the most ever, a record number.

Scott Ritter

I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.

Patricia Millett

I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

Madonna Ciccone

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

Johnny Marr

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Horace

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

Walter Savage Landor

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

Shay Carl

I think our Savior wants us to be happy on this earth. That's why we're here is to have joy.

George Foulkes

He seemed like a savior and I supported him but I must say I'm totally disillusioned now,

Jamie Foxx

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

John Schwartz

My savior has a first name. It's J-E-S-U-S. My savior has a second name. It's C-H-R-I-S-T,

George Washington Carver

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

John Newton

I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior

Henry B. Eyring

The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.

Richard Francis Burton

Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Pele

When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.

Whit Hartz

You're pretty much surrounded by sharp, poky things.

Samuel Schmid

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.