Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zaha Hadid

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

Ezra Taft Benson

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters.

Neon Hitch

I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.

Rebecca Ferguson

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

Patricia MacLachlan

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

Marc Morial

You are demonstrating here in Houston that you are willing to be your brothers and sisters' keepers in a time of need,

Jalal Talabani

You and your (Kurdish) brothers are the heroes of liberating Iraq,

Ryan Stiles

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Lee Evans

My brothers were staying at my house, so I hired them on to help me, ... You have to help people when you can.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.

Abraham Lincoln

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Gerhard Schroeder

The pictures we've seen on TV are difficult to bear.

Susan Burke

The pictures are just the tip of the iceberg. I don't think we'll have difficulty because there's a heck of a lot of evidence.

Brian Cox

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Nash Grier

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Alan Johnston

That was the most difficult game we played this season.

Rob Andrew

That was rubbish. Two teams having a real off-day. It's difficult to explain performances like that.

Graham Murray

That was as expected by the medical staff - they'll be fine.

Pete Fenson

We could hear the Swiss yelling and stuff. We expected that.

Brenden Morrow

We just didn't have the jump right away. We expected a big game from them because they've been hot.

Jeremy Burk

We played outstanding. We shot the way they expected to all year.

Sarah Kay

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.

Patricia McBride

I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.

Craig Stinnett

We've got that Gill magic, I guess. Nobody even expected us to be here. To come out and play like we did shows a lot of heart and determination.

John Pine

Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.

Jane Seymour

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.

Yo-Yo Ma

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Vivek Wadhwa

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Bill Hader

Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Vladimir Potanin

It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Bill Bryson

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Lindsey Graham

The allegation is that when they told the grand jury about the process they made some misstatements and false allegations, ... Face the Nation.

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.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Oscar Wilde

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Imelda May

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Cecelia Ahern

You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Carlton Reed

That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning.

Nick Umholtz

That was sweet. I've never been in a playoff before. Now I'm going to have to back it up for next year.

Jon Copper

That we have a teammate who may not be with us next year. I'm still not sure what's going on or how it's going to end up.

Steve Novak

We need to keep getting better. There is no next year.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Christopher Paolini

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

B. F. Skinner

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B. F. Skinner

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

Tommy Allain

We didn't do nothing. How can you punish somebody for doing nothing?

Paul Asfour

It doesn't surprise me the punishment is so lenient.

Khalil Gibran

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

Stella Young

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

William Shakespeare

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Baz Luhrmann

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Peter Sis

I trust the pictures to tell what I want to say.

Shari Pulliam

One of the most important things we can do is trust our instincts.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.

Hon Ip

It will be like 'Survivor.' We'll see which ones get voted off the island.

Ahmed Ali

We voted for the one who can make a change,

Michelle Anderson

I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.

Bob Crowder

I voted the way I thought we had to.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

M. Hopper

I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.

Paul Lowe

This is where I voted from, this is where I live, this is it.