Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Cummings

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

Reba McEntire

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Roger Ebert

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

Yancy Butler

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Yancy Butler

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

Kelis

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Mika

I love collaborating with strong women.

Priyanka Chopra

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

Portia de Rossi

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Angie Dickinson

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.

Richard Posner

The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously....

Richard P. Feynman

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Richard Howard

Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.

Richard Dawkins

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Richard Dawkins

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

Russell Brand

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

Ronda Rousey

Strong and healthy is the new sexy.

Katy Perry

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

Rita Mae Brown

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.