Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

Lita Ford

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women

Leonardo da Vinci

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Paul Robeson

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.

Lev Grossman

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

LeRoy Neiman

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

Leon Panetta

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

Laurence Steinberg

Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.

P. J. O'Rourke

Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

Paul McGinley

Passion has determined our past. Attitude will determine our future.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

Kenneth Koch

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Ken Follett

I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.

Ken Blanchard

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

Kourtney Kardashian

My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.

Kingsley Amis

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

Kinky Friedman

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world.

Oprah Winfrey

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

Oprah Winfrey

I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.

Oprah Winfrey

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

Oprah Winfrey

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.

Oprah Winfrey

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

Margaret Atwood

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

Marcel Marceau

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

Kiefer Sutherland

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

Kid Rock

That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.