Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demi Lovato

I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.

Demi Lovato

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

Demi Lovato

If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?

Alejo Carpentier

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

Alberto Giacometti

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

Alberto Manguel

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Alberto Manguel

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.

Bobby Hadley

We probably had 30 or 40 campers here for the weekend. They brought their grills and were cooking out and it was good to see all the families having fun.

John Chafee

Overshadowing all has been the president's reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statements that have undermined the dignity of the presidency, and brought about a divisive and unpleasant chapter in our history.

Jim Messina

We could now make intelligent, grown-up decisions to keep us from falling into the same trap, ... We're interacting more as friends and companions. We share the same bus, sometimes the same dressing room, and have brought our kids out to share the silliness.

Bob Curtis

We have video of each time this has happened and we can tell it's the same man. And he also now has accomplices he's brought in.

Flip Saunders

We came out kind of flat. We brought in Carlos, and he got us back in the game, took over the game, and everybody else finished.

Patrick Kavanagh

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

Pink

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

Randy West

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

Richard Eyre

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.

Marguerite Gardiner

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Deena Kastor

It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I wasn't feeling it early on. I managed to hold on to go under 2:20 which was my main goal.

Jordan Beck

It's too early to tell what's going to happen right now. Hopefully I'll get back soon and won't have to miss much time.

Dave Cassels

It is very important we get the players registered as early as possible.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brian Miller

We didn't execute as well offensively as we have the past few games. Rachel getting in foul trouble early on impacted the game, but we got some good offensive production without her, which is good so that we know we can get points from other places with sectionals approaching.

Brian Fischer

We have been doing that quite a bit. It's good for us early in the year to come back and win games like that. I think it'll make us a better team.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend

Carrie Underwood

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Karen Russell

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Plutarch

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me.''

Dwayne Johnson

Sweet cream on an ice cream sandwich!

Dwayne Johnson

You wanna do this...you wanna go right now...do you want to, GO?...then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you.

Dodie Smith

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dolly Parton

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Dolly Parton

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

Dolly Parton

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Dick Gregory

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

Desmond Morris

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Desmond Morris

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Peter O'Toole

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pearl Bailey

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Cary Fukunaga

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.