Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Wolfe

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Wesley Schultz

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Bruce Jackson

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Christina Baker Kline

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Citium Zeno

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Imelda May

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

Yoko Ono

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

Chuck Palahniuk

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

Chelsea Clinton

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

Ben Harper

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Bonnie Tyler

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

Ian MacKaye

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Gilles Villeneuve

I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.

William Kent Krueger

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

Benjamin Spock

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Brandon Flowers

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

Beeban Kidron

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

Dennis Christopher

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

Brock Evans

The American people love this law. By majorities of 75 or 80 percent, they want to protect species and don't want to consciously drive them to extinction.

Brandon Flowers

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

Wole Soyinka

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Steve Burtt

That was the driving force. That was in all of our heads and we wanted to prove a point and end that curse.

Gary Horrell

That was a great learning experience for him. It's kind of been driving him.

John Hargreaves

We can't have a police officer on every single street making sure that people are driving to conditions,

George E. Brown

You and I are paying for these thefts. If the public thinks the market is driving up home prices, they're only partially right. It's also theft from construction sites.

Kevin Osnes

We're still trying to figure out how to stop him from driving to the basket.

Megan Fox

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Brett Favre

I would love to go in. I thought about getting to Tennessee tonight and driving in with some supplies.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Cecelia Ahern

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Bill Vaughan

The fact is that I loved being in England.

Bertrand Russell

Our beliefs are, however, often contrary to fact.

Bertrand Russell

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Bertrand Russell

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Peter Fisher

We have the public support. We have the facts on our side.

Robert McDuff

Justice Diaz did not evade taxes, and when all of the facts come out, it will be clear, as it was the last time we were in court, that he is innocent.

William Lashner

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

William Lashner

I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

Will Rothhaar

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Jeffrey Archer

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Wayne Schwertner

The past year we should have had a good hatch. We should have had a good hatch for the last few years.

Brian Kernighan

I want students to understand specific technologies, but the real goal is that they should be able to reason about how systems work and be intelligently skeptical about technology so that, when they're running the world in a few years, they'll do a good job.

Bobbi Brown

Many women like to wear nude eye shadow during the day, but it doesn't really do much for you. Instead, try one that's a few shades lighter than your skin tone.

Bill Hader

I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Kurt Barnard

The 5.7 percent projection is not too much out of line, but it is at the higher end of projections,

Richard Doherty

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Chris Grisanti

That will surprise the Street and lead to a higher stock price.

Tisha Hill

We need to knock down some shots. We need to take smarter and higher percentage shots.

Eric Graaf

Today's surprise is not enough to warrant a substantially higher valuation.

Bill Carter

You'll look like you have lead weights strapped to your feet, ... The higher the heel, the more shape you're going to get to your calf.

Saddam Hussein

Will the performance of one who has sat an examination and passed it be higher and better, or lower and lesser?

Vikram Seth

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Evel Knievel

You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.

Kyle Brown

That would have been meant a lot. Seven hundred and one yards, that's a lot. That's something special. Just think if we don't make some of the mistakes that we did.

Jan Eliasson

We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

Octavio Paz

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Ian Mckellen

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

Errole Rembert

We'll play the j.v. and they play the varsity. Rather than get destroyed, we get (our kids) to play the right way.

Mary Hansen

Most of them do walk rather than take the bus.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Zana Marjanovic

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Tanith Belbin

We'd rather it be here than at the Olympics. So in that respect, it's good.

David Chaney

We'd rather her be here, even if she does win all the time.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Peter Berg

We were simply brushed off by MAF officials.

Jack Whittaker

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

Martin Sheen

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Phillips Brooks

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.