Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Cable

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Rose McGowan

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

Rex Stout

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Rick Riordan

But you'll be killed!" "I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice." Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.

Steve Vai

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

Veronica Roth

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.

Willem Dafoe

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

Warren Mitchell

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again....

Wole Soyinka

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

Wilmer Valderrama

The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

Warren Farrell

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

W. Clement Stone

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

Yvon Chouinard

Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Samuel Johnson

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Samuel Johnson

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Sarah Paulson

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

Will Smith

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

Will Smith

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Virginia Woolf

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

Werner Herzog

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Werner Herzog

That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.

William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

William Glasser

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Wavy Gravy

Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.

Walter Jon Williams

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Walter Kirn

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

William C. Bryant

Follow thou thy choice.

Winona Ryder

I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.