Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

James Howard Kunstler

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Barbara Cook

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Cornel West

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

Brian Behlendorf

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

Alex Chilton

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Andy Williams

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Arthur Godfrey

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

Adrian Cronauer

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Aaron Sorkin

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Dashiell Hammett

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Bo Diddley

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

Lewis Grizzard

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

Robert Frost

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

The Peruvian economy, in macroeconomic terms, has performed very well in past years. It's been one of the top performers in Latin America with a very dynamic agricultural and mining, and now energy sector -- very oriented toward export-led growth and has attracted substantial foreign investment. So that's all been very positive.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

Dorothy Day

We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.

The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years.

What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.

There has been a major realization that gas supplies in North America are less available than many thought just five years ago. Drill-rig counts have gone up, but gas production barely keeps pace.

There is a crisis in boyhood in America today.

e. e. cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.

You have to be prepared for the unthinkable and, in this case, we were not prepared. Every community in America should use this as a wake-up call,

This year we're celebrating 21 years of Keeping America Beautiful through the Great American Cleanup.

Jane Mayer

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

Chris Williams

We were worried he would not be able to come because of all the work he will have to do in America with the Oscars but we have got the wire he is coming. This is big news.

Those who professed this Art are supposed to have been either impostors or under the delusion created by impostors and mountebanks.

We are working closely with the Nigerian government to (distribute) these resources the best way possible... and America has provided protective equipment, laboratory equipment, supplies and technical assistance.

Santiago Durango

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

Gavin DeGraw

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

Bob DuPuy

This will be a tremendous opportunity to showcase one of the great cities in America and one of the great ballparks in Major League Baseball. And what better place to have our first World Baseball Classic finals than in a city and with a team that has such strong international roots and international outreach.