Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Todd Rundgren

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Idris Elba

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Ivar Giaever

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ian Mckellen

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

Ian Mckellen

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

When I went to San Francisco for the first time in 1975, I went there for a summer, this acting training program for three months in the summer - I've never been the same.

Gad Elmaleh

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Brigid Brophy

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Wislawa Szymborska

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.

Nayvadius Cash

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to.

Scilla Elworthy

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.

Mike Woodson

I think Marvin and Josh Smith are going to make some noise because they can do so many things. If they can get out and run and make some easy buckets they'll be fine. I just have to get them to the point where they can lock down defensively. If we can get five guys locking in and believing in what we're trying to do, we'll be all right defensively.

David Harsanyi

It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

Jamie Carragher

I'm sure Chelsea did turn up believing they couldn't lose but after hearing the crowd that night I knew we wouldn't lose.

Martin Rees

There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.

William Shatner

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

Donatella Versace

You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.

F. Sionil Jose

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Reza Aslan

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Sarah Kay

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Mark Zuckerberg

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

John Dickerson

We have by-law 461 that defines what a residence is. It defines a residence as a place where 95 percent of important family time takes place such as sleeping, where mail is received and where meals are prepared.

Jonathan Maberry

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Jim McCarthy

It defines a neighborhood. It's kind of like our keystone piece. If it's not broken, why replace it?

Jim Young

When it makes sense for my shareholders, when it makes sense for my customers, we're willing to put the investment in,

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Matthew Lloyd

For most people, it represents a stable, solid investment in choppy waters.

Judy Genshaft

I would say that the Legislature and the people of Tampa made a very savvy investment 50 years ago.

Joseph Lisanti

What is a dividend but your payment as an owner of the company? If you don't get that, then the only way you can profit from your investment is to sell all of it or part of it.

Todd Pratt

He has been great, ... This is what the organization made that investment for.

Nathaniel Smith

I'd like see the the party give strong arguments for more investment in post-secondary education. What's a better place to do it than in Halifax, where there are so many students?

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Daymond John

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Richard Eyre

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

Simon Travaglia

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Sathya Baba

Whoever makes me the sole object of their love, merges in me like a river in the ocean.

Maya Angelou

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Ellen Thorsen

I look for the extraordinary in the ordinary. The shadow is often more interesting than the object itself.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Katie King

We'll probably keep saying all that to ourselves, but it sure doesn't make this feel much better.

Eric Dubin

Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?

Peter T. King

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

Hal McManus

I'm so tired of saying 'box out' that I'm sick of it. I think I say 'box out' in my sleep.

Frank MacKay

It doesn't have any basis. It's like me saying they're Martians; it's silly.

Kevin Smith

We're not saying we're a sequel. No, no, no.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.

Harold Williams

We are saying we won't look into the provenance.

Amber Frey

On Saturday, you were saying that there's so many things you thought about ... about us, but you haven't shared them with me. Why can't you share them to me on the phone?