Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Clary

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

Keith Richards

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

Kristen Bell

I was so paranoid that my friends wouldn't like me. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were very real. You couldn't just push some nameless face in the hallway because everybody knew each other's families, so there wasn't the obligatory psychotic jackass that tortured everybody.

Mark Feehily

I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.

Quentin Crisp

The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded to derogatory remarks accompanied with a stated intent to kill him by asking, "Would you like to make an appointment?"

Lady Starlight

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Natalie Portman

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky that I came of age before all of that came on.

Natalie Portman

Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

Taylor Swift

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think everyone has been annoyed at school or in their life, that's a type of bullying. So, you can take those feelings and make them bigger. But I try not to use too much from my real life, because you'll be stuck with that all day.

Kenny Wormald

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Katy Perry

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

Lady Gaga

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Julianne Hough

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

Ludovico Ariosto

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.

John Lennon

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

They thought they were going to bully us around. Hey, we're not going to be bullied.

Kurt Vonnegut

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Charles Djou

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

We've been getting lots of information talking about what bullying is. Bullying has been starting very early in schools. Bullying may start innocently, but it can escalate into something stronger.

Raini Rodriguez

Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.

Shawn Amos

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

The governor has the bully pulpit. It would be good for her to even have some encouraging words for the Winchester workers and state publicly that she would welcome a new business partner to the state. March 31 is when the plant will close, but that doesn't mean that's the end of the story. We're still working hard to find a new operator.

Danielle Steel

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

When you get slapped in the face by a bully for so long, it makes it even sweeter to come into their place and win like this.