Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice T

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Gary Hart

Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

William E. Conway, Jr.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

Walter Brennan

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

Eartha Kitt

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

Don Aaron

The police department's investigation is very much continuing. At this point in the investigation, six female students at Paragon Mills have reported inappropriate contact by the teacher. The police department takes accusations such as this very seriously. In any case such as this we'd ask that anybody in the community who has information about this to contact the police department.

Valerie Bertinelli

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

Judith Butler

I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?'

Yoshihiko Noda

I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

William Kirby

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

William Kirby

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

William Kirby

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

Vince Cable

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

Constance Wu

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Constance Wu

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

Guenael Rodier

The picture is quite clear. We have a situation similar to what we've seen in Asia so far. There are a number of small-size family clusters of disease, including many children that had contact with infected birds, in particular backyard poultry, particularly backyard chickens.

Paul Gray

The overriding negative influence on Asian export prices this year has been the strong growth in Indonesian exports, particularly as this has occurred at a time of limited buying interest in the spot market from the Japanese power utilities.

Will Sergeant

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Ann Smith

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

David Eagleman

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

Chuck Schumer

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Natasha Trethewey

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Nathan Myhrvold

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Chuck Hagel

The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations.

Hayao Miyazaki

The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged.

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Bertrand Russell

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Gordon Brown

The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture.

Markos Kyprianou

We have already taken all steps necessary. Once it has touched European soil, then we have raised all the measures we should take,

Peter Kenyon

We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Gabriel Macht

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Carl Griffith

We could have a massive inundation of Port Arthur.

Peter O'Toole

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Margot Robbie

'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.

Zara Phillips

My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.

John Edwards

We have to sell that to young people. It's a massive opportunity.

E. F. Schumacher

Not mass production but production by the masses.

Holliday Grainger

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

Robert McGregor

People were sure that science, education, technology and mass production were going to solve their problems,

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Dick Pound

I think one is right to say some of these records are pretty suspect,

Martin Nissenbaum

Have your records tied up as neatly as possible, so you're not shuffling through records,

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

Chris Rix

We anticipated a lot more single coverage, but we didn't get it as often as we wanted to,

Kenny Williams

We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.

Robbie Williams

My self-doubts are disappearing day by day... However, my first single was a cover.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Diane Setterfield

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.