Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Ross

James Packer was spotted around a Scientology campus in Australia, has made frequent trips in Los Angeles where Scientology is headquartered, and reportedly spent time in Scientology counseling sessions in Sydney ù and Tom Cruise is his pal. Practically everything that Tom Cruise does has some connection to Scientology. The thinking is that Cruise has groomed this guy to be a big giver to follow in Cruise's footsteps. After all, Tom Cruise is the biggest giver Scientology has.

I see it as a signal for Angela Merkel.

Miriam Makeba

I sang in Los Angeles recently and a band that had managed to get out of New Orleans played there. They asked me for one or to songs for a CD being recorded. My group and I said yes, we were ready to contribute in that way, the only way we have.

Steve Erickson

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

I was a Dodger fan born and raised, ... I probably went to only one Angels game and 100 Dodger games. I grew up with this stadium.

David Thomas

I think that our familiarity with the hotel and the practice facilities will be really helpful. It will take a lot of stress out of the trip having experienced this all before. Los Angeles is Southern California's backyard, but we have been here and sort of know what to expect now.

Mike Hargrove

I thought our pitching was pretty good today. The Angels have a good team but we pitched well, hit pretty well and defensively played well. That one lapse in the sixth inning hurt us, obviously.

Robert Kraft

I think what's happening in Los Angeles is good, and the league very much wants to be there. I know since I've come into the league we've been talking about re-emerging in L.A., and I think this is the beginning of getting a team placed there.

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes

Maulik Pancholy

I watch TV on my TV pretty exclusively. However, when I'm on that long flight between Los Angeles and New York, a great way to pass that time is to download movies on iTunes and watch them on my laptop.

Cynthia Nixon

I was actually in the midst of breakfast, and Angela Tarantino, who does publicity at HBO, called me -- very excited, shrieking into the phone. It was very nice. ... 'Sex and the City' won last year, which was so exciting, but Sarah and I weren't out there because we are doing plays in New York. So you can be sure we will be there this year with bells on this time around.

I went to Los Angeles for a photo shoot. I went on 'Cold Pizza.' They did my makeup and hair.

Rising stars still outpace fallen angels globally, though the gap is narrower than in 2005, when the number of rising stars exceeded that of fallen angels by the biggest margin since 1997.

Curtis Sliwa

Remember, none of this would have come about if there weren't interest to have Guardian Angels from people.

Lindsay Davenport

I am looking forward to getting healthy and defending my year-end No.1 ranking at the WTA Championships in Los Angeles next week,

Knute Nelson

I am glad, yes truly glad, that the Death Angel has passed you by untouched this time, though he has not gone far from you for a victim.

I am so honored to have been asked to manage one of Los Angeles theatrical treasures, the Celebration Theatre. I look forward to bringing a new vitality to the theatre with its first subscription series of shows in over a decade and initiating a company of actors to create a vibrant family of artists at the theatre.

But the angel said unto him, 'Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.' (Luke 1:13)

Susanna Moore

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

Sophie Winkleman

I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A Half Men,' so I'm staying put there for the moment. I'm loving life is L.A. at the moment - I'm out there for work, as that is where the jobs are.

Legends like Jim Murray at the 'Los Angeles Times' and Shirley Povich at the 'Washington Post' were the most beloved guys at their papers. They'd write a cherished column for 30 years, and that was it. There was nothing else to do, no higher job to attain.

There are so many great teams in the Los Angeles area, ... After I retired (from UCLA) and got into coaching club diving, it was like starting from scratch. It's harder to get back on top now, the sport is so good.

Anna Chlumsky

There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

Annie Lennox

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Annie Lennox

There must be an angel playing with my heart.

D. H. Lawrence

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

D. H. Lawrence

What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

The fact that we got that goal a minute later is what did it. If we didn't get that right back, this could have been different. It's like we had angels up there looking down that we did.

Alexander MacLaren

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.

Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Alexander Pope

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Drew Barrymore

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.