Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

Catherine Opie

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Franken

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Andy Goldsworthy

The early firings contained many stones.

Anne Sexton

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Claire Danes

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Corey Taylor

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

Alice Hoffman

I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

Erin Morgenstern

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.