Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Will Smith

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

Ellen DeGeneres

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.

Jacques Beaulieu

That's part of being a rookie and growing up as a player. You don't get your proper rest (on a five-hour train ride), but we want him to play as much as possible.

Selena Gomez

I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.

Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Eric Stoltz

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

Rick Davis

We didn't have low expectations in Iowa, we had no expectations in Iowa.

Buddy Guy

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Ronald Neumann

These expectations of the people will have to be met,

Luther Jackson

The status quo is dead. And that's why people are so nervous.

Kevin Cronin

The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.

Joe Napoli

The state is going to have to step in and see to it these people comply, if they have to shut them down, yank licenses.

Gawain Scott

I speak for the people of the street.

Matthew Morrison

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

John Mackey

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

Pras Michel

I slept in the rain. My tent was stolen. I experienced how these people live.

Ryan Trecartin

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory)

Nora Roberts

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

Nikola Tesla

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.

Mireille Enos

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

Miranda July

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

John Ruskin

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.