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.'

Richard Widmark

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

William Ellery Channing

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Richard Pryor

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

William Blake

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Werner Herzog

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set,

Upton Sinclair

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Twyla Tharp

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

William Godwin

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Walter Lippmann

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

Richard Dawkins

Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.

Richelle Mead

You have the patience of a saint," I grumbled, slouching into a chair. "And besides, you don't hang out with him 24/7." "Neither will you. It's only 24/6." "Same difference. It might as well be 24/10." She frowned. "That doesn't make any sense.

Richard Avedon

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

Russell Brand

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

Tyler Perry

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

William Jennings Bryan

The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

Wong Kar-wai

In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

William J. Clinton

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

William J. Clinton

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.