Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolf Hitler

History is as Old as My Grandfather

Nik Wallenda

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.

Mario Cuomo

I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.

Frances Mayes

I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time." Alex's grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Novak Djokovic

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Rachael Ray

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

Lloyd Banks

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

Billy Ray Cyrus

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Marina Abramovic

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Immanuel Kant

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Humphrey Bogart

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

Rebecca West

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

Samuel Johnson

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Rebecca Loos

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

J. K. Rowling

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life..

George Herbert

Losse embraceth shame.

Rick Riordan

Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.

M. F. K. Fisher

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.