Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Waits

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

Tom Waits

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

Tom Waits

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

Tom Shales

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

Steven Spielberg

From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

Steven Spielberg

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite.

Steven Erikson

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

Steve Martin

Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.

Steve Carell

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart.

Stephen Hawking

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

Stephen Harper

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

Stephen Harper

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

Stephen Harper

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

Stephen Harper

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

Stephen Harper

It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

Stephen Harper

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

Stephen Harper

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

Stephen Harper

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

Stanley Baldwin

I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of the British constitution. You placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many, many years. Have I done anything to forfeit that confidence? Cannot you trust me to ensure a square deal to secure even justice between man and man?

Silvio Berlusconi

I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.

Sigmund Freud

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Shirley MacLaine

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

Shepard Smith

Not even my parents know how I vote.

Shelley Winters

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

Shakira

If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

Sergey Brin

whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.

Pink

My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

Pierre Corneille

He who pardons easily invites offense.

Phillip Adams

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Philip Levine

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

Keith Ellison

Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.

Katy Perry

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.