Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Paxton

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

Sanford I. Weill

I would say that my parents were supportive of me.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

Sandra Oh

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Samuel West

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Samuel Johnson

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

Wallace Stevens

The imperfect is our paradise.

Vivian Stanshall

Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ...

Vivien Leigh

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

Vincent Nichols

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

William Howard Taft

What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.

Willa Cather

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Warren Buffett

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct. Beyond that, the rising price has on its own generated additional buying enthusiasm, attracting purchasers who see the rise as validating an investment thesis. As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

Vivienne Westwood

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Vincent Van Gogh

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

Vincent Van Gogh

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

Vladimir Lenin

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

Vladimir Lenin

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

Walter Bagehot

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

Virginia Woolf

and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

William Blake

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Werner Erhard

Until you've completed your relationship with your parents, all your relationships will be about your parents.

Werner Herzog

There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.

Samuel Richardson

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Samuel L. Jackson

I read, watch television, watch movies, hang out with family. I like my clothes and I have great cars, and I drive those. But for most people, it's like, "That's boring. You don't club? You don't party?"

Sally Ride

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

Salma Hayek

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

Salman Rushdie

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

Salman Rushdie

Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

Ryan O'Neal

I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a birthday party that I was having for my ex-wife, Leigh Taylor-Young.

Ryan Reynolds

I know people that have blacked out that I party with that dont do anything irresponsible. They just act drunk, ... I dont think people should ever drink by themselves because they need to have friends around that can keep them in line in case they do blackout.