Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Emerson Fittipaldi

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

Edie Sedgwick

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

Holbrook Jackson

When in doubt, risk it

Henrik Ibsen

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

John L. Phillips

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

John Lahr

Criticism is a life without risk.

John Barrowman

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

Jim Lehrer

The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

George Gilder

In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.

Eric Idle

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Rachel Nichols

Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.

Newt Gingrich

Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.

Noam Chomsky

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

Noam Chomsky

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

Mike Myers

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Joe Dumars

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

Jodi Picoult

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Adanma Ekeledo

We were just trying some things out. You never know when you'll need it.

Richard Kovalcheck

We were just being aggressive. We were trying to get a big play right off the bat.

Robert Benton

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

Robert Bly

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Suzanne Shaw

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

Tony La Russa

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

Sam Mendes

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Rick Baker

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.