Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Art Alexakis

My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.

Jerry Martin

That will provide roughly 10 percent more gasoline for California users and hopefully stabilize availability, which we hope will stabilize prices.

Brooke Julicher

We have more people graduating than usual, but the girls that we'll have next year are solid, and our B-team is getting better. Also, people in California know that this is a good school for lacrosse at this level, so we always get good recruiting.

Russell Sheldon

With the U.S. economy hot and global growth accelerating, the issue of Fed tightening has become the conceptual equivalent of pondering a possible California earthquake. It's going to happen, but probably not tomorrow, and participants would rather not think about it.

Penn Badgley

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

Mike Fleming

When the California Highway Patrol contacted him, he said its a miracle. He's very excited about it. He's flying in tomorrow.

Kevin Starr

We need to reclaim the ethical high ground of what California should mean,

Thor Heyerdahl

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

Ice T

I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

Ivana Milicevic

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby, and this thing comes over them and changes them.

Gina Bellman

There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

Donald Trump

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

Zadie Smith

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Shirley Egner

That win (at Oshkosh) was huge. It couldn't have helped with our preparation any better. We were able to gain some momentum and confidence. We're welcoming the challenge.

Peter Cardillo

We've made some nice gains for the year, and now we're consolidating near the highs,

Yitzhak Rabin

We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.

Gary Mickelson

We're still trying to gain a better understanding of what happened.

David Tucker

You can be 90 years old and you'd still gain muscle mass.

Arthur Eddington

Who will observe the observers?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

Soren Kierkegaard

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Gore Vidal

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Cecelia Ahern

I was the life and she was the soul of every party.

Carrie Fisher

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Carl Paladino

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

Bethenny Frankel

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

Bette Davis

There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen.

Bill Vaughan

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

Bill Burr

Against these two [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] I would [vote], but I never voted for [Barack Obama]. I always voted third party - the ones who say their gonna jail the bankers.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Carrie Fisher

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carl Rogers

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

Carl Sagan

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

Carl Sagan

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney.

Bill Bryson

So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

Arnold Schoenberg

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Aron Ralston

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Bruce Johnston

There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Mohammed Habib

We won 34 seats and we could have won even more had there not been wrongdoing.

Brittany Campbell

It has heated seats and a six-CD changer.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

John Cage

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

John Mayer

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Anthony Fauci

We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it,

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.