Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose McGowan

I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

Virginia Woolf

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woodrow Wilson

...to make the world safe for democracy.

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.

Vanessa Hudgens

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

Rodrigo Santoro

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

Robert Rodriguez

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

Salma Hayek

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Mark Haley

Jackson has overcome a lot of adversity, and had struggled with his ERA this season. To win this championship we needed someone to step up like he did. He should be the most valuable player of this series.

Bob Hartley

Just the way those guys battled all night, it's easy to say we have a desire to be in the playoffs. We faced tons of adversity (Thursday night). Read between the lines.

Kristin King

I think it's a journey that's been great. We've been tested in every single way imaginable, and I think it's going to help us in the end, battling through adversity and doing what we need to do in the end to win the game.

Drew Bledsoe

I also thought it was good for our offense to bounce back from a really horrible start. I think we showed that there is no panic in this team... can respond to adversity which is going to serve us well in the future.

Rick Carlisle

Harrison felt bad about the suspension. I thought he atoned himself in a very strong way with his play at both ends of the court. That's what you want to see, a guy respond to adversity when things aren't going well all the time.

Seneca

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity

Sidney Crosby

Going through this is a lot of adversity -- let's be honest, there is a little bit of pressure because we haven't been winning -- and if we can get through this, we'll be better for it, ... It's not an ideal situation but now we realize it's tough to win and we have to be ready every night. We have to dig deep and play determined and play desperate.

Kevin Towers

He's had to learn in the big leagues, which is tough. He's faced probably as much adversity as any young player in the game is going to face.

Leonard Perry

He's a talented kid. He personifies what our program is all about. He's tough. He plays hard. He got his degree in 31/2 years. He's completing a second major. Great kid. He keeps us going through the kind of adversity we've had.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.