Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Poul Anderson

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

Paul Buchheit

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

Ken Follett

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Oprah Winfrey

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Ville Valo

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

Myriam Miedzian

Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses.'

Taylor Swift

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Joseph Conrad

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Kary Mullis

I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

Lars Ulrich

Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an ad in the paper saying, 'stupid drummer looking for stupid people to play music with,' Metallica is it and I think when that ceases, that's it.

Lars von Trier

It's the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I'm sitting next to this guy who's writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called On the Sunny Side, and he's writing a review on the film, and he's obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things. So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

John Key

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

Matthew Stover

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Ian Forrester

It would've been rough justice at the end if we would've won. A theft really. But you learn a lot from these games. If you believe in yourselves, you always have a chance.

Richard Repetto

It was thinly traded yesterday, they haven't even given the shares to the members yet and the members are locked up. I believe that the real fundamentals of the stock will drive the valuation going forth.

Steve Yzerman

It was the right thing to do. I would've loved to play in the Olympics again, but I believe it's time for me to step aside. It's time to let other guys play.

Rafik Khan

It was unfortunate that the players had to take such a stance and maybe it was immaturity on the part of some of them. Genuine concerns will always be addressed through proper channels but I believe we should not lose focus of the job at hand at the finals in Egypt.

Sharon Frazier

It was a personal thing. My husband and I believe in giving back so we just decided to do it.

Mike Trapasso

It was a case of us not showing up. I'll give credit to their pitcher, but we didn't show up as a team from the first pitch. We were lifeless. The better team by far was wearing gray today. The final score wasn't even that close a game. They believe that they're a good club. We played tonight like all we believe in is what we're reading.

David Obey

The services provided to patients are so much broader in scope than in the past, all of that costs more money and I believe that it all has value.

Noel Lee

These relics are so important to Buddhists, but we want to share them with people of all faiths. We believe they are the embodiment of the Buddha's compassion and wisdom.