Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

Angelina Jolie

We are at a unique threshold in human history, where the crisis we face in Africa is matched only by our degree of hope that we can and will be a force for positive change, ... I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

John Barrie

We're an institution that never has really embraced its history. We hope that everyone, whether it's students, faculty or alumni, will come away from this with a sense that this is an institution with a pretty profound history.

Robert Collins

We think it is wonderful that the public has embraced the project and wants to be involved.

Nancy Pelosi

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

Jim Rash

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Bill Russell

It's been cold, but they embraced it. They bundled up. They knew they had to be out hitting the ball, and there hasn't been one complaint.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Vandana Shiva

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Ken Watanabe

We found that they punched the keyhole in the driver's side.

Source Unknown

The very first steps towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Benjamin Booker

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

Jeff Golc

At this point, we are not interested in any of it. But that could change. It is a fast-paced world now. Remember Standard Foods? It was big in the 1960s, and now you can't find them.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

Steve Swanson

We are interested in the volume ? we need the wood.

Jennifer Pizer

We are interested in serious, incremental work in order to succeed.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Diane Moore

I've wanted to do this for a long time because I love to dance.

Christine Teigen

I've tweeted incessantly about Nintendo and my love for Nintendo for a long time.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Christopher Morley

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

T. S. Eliot

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Stephen Spender

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Rumi

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Amartya Sen

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ben Gibbard

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Eddie Van Halen

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

Doris Day

If there is a heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

Christopher Paolini

Let's drop rocks on them!

Anne Boleyn

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Angelina Jolie

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

Jerry Woolsey

It was tough for us to keep up with them. They got on a roll and shot really well.

Jennifer Schack

We could see a shower in today's forecast. We could see a storm roll through.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Don Cassidy

You don't have to be 75 to use a rolling wire basket.

Cameron Bennerman

This is 2006. We're just trying to keep this thing rolling while we're here.

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.