Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Goodall

I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

Aimee Mullins

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

Craig Ferguson

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

Brandi Carlile

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

Brooke Burke

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

David Archuleta

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

Simone Elkeles

My history defines who I am.

Tina Yothers

It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

Roger Daltrey

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

Cyndi Valentin

As far as the team, we didn't want to end our careers like that. We wanted to fight, stay alive and keep playing.

Maxine Russell

It would have taken two hours of their time and Darren would be alive today.

David Bowie

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

Ray Nagin

everything you hoped to happen is happening. Algiers is alive and well and breathing.

Jack Bruce

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Amartya Sen

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Ambrose Bierce

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

Andre Breton

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

Stevie Smith

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.