Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Timothy Noah

The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Ian Mckellen

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

Ismail Kadare

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Gale Harold

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Garry Hynes

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

Gail Carriger

My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

Gwen Moore

I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district.

Mark Geragos

The police orchestrated a press conference starring Amber Frey (Peterson's admitted lover) that was carried live on television in January, almost four full months before Scott was even arrested let alone arraigned in this matter. Before the current defense team was in place, Modesto police had held at least six televised press conferences.

John C. Calhoun

It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.

Walter Kirn

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

Bill Proffitt

The 16-year-old has admitted that he came into possession of the gun about a year ago. He found it in a bag on the street and took it home. He kept it for personal protection.

E. O. Wilson

Usually when the public gets admitted to something, it's the end of the bubble. The exponential growth in private equity and hedge funds in the last decade is mind-boggling. There's a bubble here that's going to bust. There's too much money. That's true in venture capital and it's true of hedge funds as well.

Lew Wasserman

Will I do something different? Probably, since to be quite blunt about it, what we did the first time resulted in an admittedly somewhat bizarre, but guilty, verdict.

Dennis Erlich

Jon and Tim both admittedly didn't have their best game. Jon said he kept grinding all the way to the end. We say when you don't have your stuff you grind it out. Tim said he was four or five strokes over early and just kept grinding.

Roger Cox

We are disappointed, but hardly surprised, that the company has as much as admitted that it has no interest in further direct negotiations. Management has been largely unresponsive to our attempts to negotiate in earnest for a fair contract.

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Ian Mckellen

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Gallagher

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

Zadie Smith

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Walter Smith

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Bill Cosby

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.

Nancy Gibbs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.