Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

Joe Wilson

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Judith Guest

I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people.

Ana Castillo

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Russell Hoban

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

John Barth

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

John C. Hawkes

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

Tom Verlaine

I just got a letter from a guy in Japan. One of them somehow found out where I lived one day and came up to my house and knocked on my door.

Charles Colton

The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm

Johann Lamont

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Alan Stern

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.

Kelly Brownell

One of the brightest thinkers in our field, he produced fundamental changes in the way the world thought about issues of human abilities. Remarkably productive, but always with time to share a laugh and wisdom with those younger than him, Seymour has made a very real difference.

David Meadows

One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she'd had in 20 years. She was so strong in math and science. She excelled.

Juan Maldonado

I think they are the brightest students I've ever taught.

Terry Wogan

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Dave Carlson

Most of the functions of today's cars are computer controlled, leading not only to much higher price tags, but also for technicians with computer skills and excellent diagnostic abilities. By encouraging the brightest high school students to pursue education and training in this field, we are ensuring the country will have qualified technicians in the years to come.

Vladimir Putin

We are working in other areas [like ALROSA] as well, so there are no radical changes to our position. It is not the case when we have to, as we say, make a lot of fuss about it. In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost.

Tyra Banks

I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.

Emma Watson

I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

Mika

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

Lea Michele

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Kreayshawn

I'm obsessed with horrible movies.

Augusten Burroughs

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Rebecca West

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vera Wang

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.