Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Clancy

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Tom Clancy

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

Tom Clancy

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

Tom Clancy

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

Tom Clancy

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

John Muir

Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

James R. Clapper

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

Larry Hagman

We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.

Jon Gries

It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.

Johnnie Cochran

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

John Adams

My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, of the independence of the United States: a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

Narciso Rodriguez

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

Og Mandino

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

Oscar de la Renta

I don't really know how to do casual clothes

Oscar de la Renta

Every season I am inspired by women.

Jimmy Carter

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Jimmy Carter

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Jimmy Carter

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

Jimmy Carter

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

John C. Reilly

Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to your friends, it's not like, "Oh, I had a pleasant day, nothing happened on the bus today." It's when strange things happen, when you become uncomfortable or knocked out of your own reality, those are the things that are interesting.

Emile Hirsch

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

Simone Elkeles

Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever.

Tim Gunn

When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

Tim McGraw

One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

Les Miles

We're undefeated in regulation.

Les Miles

Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.

Lee Grant

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Shelley Berman

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

Peter Jacobson

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.