Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Idle

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.

John Dryden

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Fetty Wap

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

Gloria Steinem

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

Gloria Steinem

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

J. G. Ballard

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

George Bernard Shaw

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Bob Simon

The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

Bernardo Houssay

The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.

Banks

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

Bryce Dallas Howard

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.

Colbie Caillat

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Clarence Thomas

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

Colin Baker

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Cliff Burton

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Claude Monet

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same...

Dan Rather

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Dan Quayle

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

Dan Marino

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

Clifford D. Simak

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Clifford Irving

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

We urge the government of National Unity to continue to take steps to stop the violence, to promote reconciliation and to maintain momentum on implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement.

Allison Tolman

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

Andrae Crouch

I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

Alfred Hershey

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.