Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saoirse Ronan

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Samuel Gompers

W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

Samuel Gompers

We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

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.

Wendy Liebman

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

Wanda Sykes

When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.

Wangari Maathai

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

W. S. Gilbert

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Virginia Foxx

(The bill) is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.

Vinny Guadagnino

Partying isn't every aspect to my personality.

W. H. Auden

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

W. H. Auden

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

Wayne Dyer

If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

Wayne Dyer

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

Tove Jansson

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

Van Jones

The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Paradise is for those who make paradise.

Tyga

I'm not an Internet artist, I didn't get discovered on the Internet - I got discovered pushing my mix tapes on the street, walking on foot, going to parties, passing them out.

Twiggy

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Virginia Satir

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Virginia Satir

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Vincent Cassel

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

Walt Whitman

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life...

Saul Williams

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Saul Williams

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

Sarah Dessen

That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—