Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shepard Fairey

I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to the core. People want to be masters of their own destinies, but at the same time, I think they do so selectively. Sometimes they want to be told exactly what to do so they don't have to think for themselves - as long as they can still exercise their free will.

Shahzia Sikander

Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.

Summer Glau

When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

Robbie Williams

I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.

Richard Stallman

If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

Richard Simmons

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

Richard Simmons

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

Richard Simmons

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Richard Simmons

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

Richard Simmons

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

Richard Simmons

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

Richard Mitchell

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Michael Ignatieff

The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence...

Michelle Obama

When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted, as long as I exercised; or if I didn't exercise and just watched what I ate, I'd maintain. Now I have to do both.

Michelle Obama

For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.

Michael Polanyi

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

Seth Rogen

I eat well, and I exercise.

Ravi Zacharias

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Tom Daschle

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

Sofia Vergara

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.

Socrates

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

Socrates

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Michelle Obama

I've always been a closet jock. With exercising, the more you do it, the more you get into it. And the more you see results, the more you're pushing for the next level.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

John Quincy Adams

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

John Patrick Shanley

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

John Paul Stevens

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.

John P. Kotter

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

John P. Kotter

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

John Owen

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Noel Coward

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

Noel Coward

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

Nneka

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.