Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Letterman

Some Secret Service guys crashed a car into the White House. And they had been drinking when it happened. Actually, they hit a barrier trying to get to the White House. It's the same thing that is happening to Hillary.

David Eagleman

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

David Beckham

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

David Oyelowo

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

David Mamet

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

Dani Shapiro

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Daisaku Ikeda

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Conan O'Brien

It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?'

Peter Coyote

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.

We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you.

Andrew Murray

We had a drink with some Swedish fans last night and we've had a great time.

Bill Taylor

We had 300 Indians here last Sunday, and most of them drove in from out of town.

We got in the truck and drove up here and the whole world was on fire.

Isaac Newton

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Meryl Streep

The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.

Meryl Streep

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

Without the hurricanes, it could have been 14 consecutive months of below-normal rainfall. This past March was one of the driest - if not the driest - Marches on record for a large portion of South Louisiana, and this extremely dry spring weather has persisted through the first half of April, as well.

There are several drivers for potential earnings growth that I don't think are reflected in the stock.

Harry Reid

The president, I guess, is still being driven by Karl Rove,

Robert H. Schuller

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Bill Simmons

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Baz Luhrmann

If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

Steve Alford

The Olympics is nothing I ever dreamed about. I dreamed about playing for Coach Knight and Indiana.

Henry Petroski

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

Henry Petroski

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

Helen Fisher

I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.

Gil Scott-Heron

I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.

Gregg Allman

So many people out there can probably sing very good - all they need to do is just drop their inhibitions. That's why most people do their singing in the shower.

Gilbert Morris

When people find out that I've written 208 novels, they ask, 'How did you think of all that?' Well, I answer, 'How do you not think of it?' I see a gum wrapper on the ground, and I think, 'Oh, a Russian spy probably dropped that.' I just think like that, and those thoughts go through my mind constantly.

Francesca Annis

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.

Ella Eyre

I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up stripping out the natural oils. What I like to do is just rinse out the products that I've used during the week and then put leave-in conditioner in and let it dry naturally.