Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anita Shreve

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Han Suyin

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

Pope XIII

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Larry Long

There's a real freedom without all that stuff, once you learn to get by without all the things you thought were necessities.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Tariq Khan

We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.

Bill Rosendahl

We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and put them in a sanctuary.

Daniel Kraft

In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time - we might prescribe apps.

Wendelin Wiedeking

In the future the fundamental idea is to stand on three legs, which means if one product is up maybe the other is down,

Dick Hill

Higher oil prices are all we'll look at in the future. No way is this going to be like 1982 or 1987, where the market collapses and we'll be back to $1 for a gallon of heating oil.

Donald Driver

I'm hoping that Brett comes back for another year. I hope Mike comes back. No one knows what the future holds right now. What we did today is we started a new year. We wanted to make sure we started 2006 off on a good note. We'll see what happens.

Bryce Swafford

I'll bask in it a little bit. Twenty-four hours at most. Then I'll go back to looking over our future opponents, seeing if we can get an edge.

Astro Teller

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

Rick Smith

I hope that it really helps other people in the future. Wish it would've been there sooner. But I hope it is able to help people who are in the (same) position as me and my neighbors.

Derrek Lee

I heard that they would talk in the spring, but that's about it. I think my future is here. I like it here. I want to win here. I see myself being here, but a lot of it is out of my control. If it works out, great, but it's out of my control.

John Petrashek

I have to live three years in the future.

Demi Lovato

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

Aristotle

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Angie Martinez

The projects I'm working on are all diverse, but each represents a different passion for me. I'm constantly looking to stretch myself.

John Ruskin

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

John Ruskin

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

John Ruskin

Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose acts are the acts of a man; who is present in some places, not in others; who makes no places holy and not others; who is kind to one person, unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse to him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrifice of a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. This, whatever form of faith it colors, is the essence of superstition.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Masiela Lusha

If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

Mason Cooley

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.