Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonas Salk

I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so I see not a top rung and a bottom rung - I see all this horizontally - and I see this as part of a matrix. And I see every human being as having a purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.

Jonah Lehrer

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Jonah Hill

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

Jonah Hill

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

Jonah Goldberg

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

Jon Stewart

I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

Jon Stewart

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

Jon Stewart

Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.

Jon Stewart

Everyone knows if a Republican comes out of the closet and sees a gay shadow, it means six more years of a Democratic administration.

Jon Lord

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Joyce Carol Oates

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Joyce Carol Oates

I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

Katey Sagal

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Kate Winslet

I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?

Kate Winslet

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

Kate Winslet

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

Kate Bernheimer

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Justin Tuck

I love rings, but I cant wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

Justine Larbalestier

The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

Justin Vernon

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

Justin Vernon

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

Justin Vernon

I just understand... I mean this may sound kind of bigheaded, bullheaded, or cumbersome, but when people say they've had a really deep experience with the record, like it caused a divorce or it like...I've gotten all these stories.

Justin Timberlake

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

Julie Bishop

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

Julie Bishop

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

Julie Davis

I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I do love, but I find it's in conflict with the other roles because the producer needs to be the one who says "No" and the director and the writer need to let their mind be free.

Julie Delpy

It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

Judith Miller

When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

Judith Light

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

Judith Light

To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

Judith Orloff

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

Judith Martin

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

Judith Martin

People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.