Famous Quotes & Sayings

Privacy is an illusion. Privacy doesn't exist, and it hasn't existed for quite a long time.

John Irving

Do you really want to go back to those times when orphanages existed and when many orphans were not adopted?

And then the question becomes, can the guidelines in general be maintained or will the guidelines be thrown out? And we then go back to the regime that existed before the guidelines under which judges had tremendous sentencing discretion. That's another big question in this case.

These natural movement patterns have existed in the Rocky Mountains for thousands of years.

The status quo in storage has existed for a long, long time, ... but I think the applecart is about to be upset.

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

You now have options in suburbia that never existed before. If you're nomadic in the tech world, you're really moving from one suburb to another.

We are helping to recover the Jewish history of Spain, ... After Israel, Jerusalem and Babylonia, this was the largest and most important Diaspora community. It existed nearly intact for about 1,500 years.

The only misgiving that I think has existed is that this is on the fast track.

Brian Posehn

I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show', why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then?

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

S. Jay Olshansky

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Mary Matalin

I didn't know that it existed until I was actually down there, and I'm sure I could find my way back there to this day.

Suddenly, a blockage that had existed for at least 50 years was removed. What the Reagan administration was able to do was recover the original understanding of the religion clauses. Neutrality toward religion does not mean secularity. It means evenhandedness.

Kate Ford

That was a different kind of movie that existed in a different time,

Mike McCarthy

I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.

Jennifer Connelly

I think it's a different type of horror film than has existed before,

Jim Rogers

with more money than knew existed in the world.

Fred Seibert

Everything about 'Adventure Time' is the purest form of kid's play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn't pretend to be real. That was the great thing about 'Pee Wee's Playhouse'; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized.

When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.

Jim Lovell

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

The property owners want some service they typically can't get with the township. ... Wisconsin is one of the few states that have town government. They have disappeared in most states or never existed in the first place. Town officials aren't comfortable hearing that.

Patrick O'Brian

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

I know the Golden League has existed for many years now but this is the year when I can do it,

Graham Moore

I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.

Kim Wilde

There was a lot to be said for the situation that existed in the old days, when a singer's writing partner stayed in the background.

Howard Smith

Construction vandalism has existed since the population in Spotsylvania started growing,

This helps fill a big gap that has existed in evolutionary studies.

Sam Harris

All of the problems that have existed in Benton Harbor were existing last week and the week before and the year before, and they weren't here then, ... They don't need to come now.

Harry Chapin

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Hill Harper

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

Alber Elbaz

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

Brian Wilson

My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.