Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dakota Fanning

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

Dakota Fanning

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

Condola Rashad

My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them - you're able to go full-on into the story versus talking about edgy this moment was.

Condola Rashad

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

Condoleezza Rice

I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

Condoleezza Rice

The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The truth does not need to be defended.

Antje Traue

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

Carlos Zambrano

We're talking to each other. All we want to do is win.

We're talking to a lot of people. We keep talking.

We're talking hundreds a day, we're not talking one or two.

Brian Murphy

We had 500 critical-care patients. We had only three deaths.

We, as the board, need to come together with long-range plans.

Billy Graham

I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.

Billy Graham

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

Billy Graham

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

Billy Graham

Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

e. e. cummings

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

Meryl Streep

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

Meryl Streep

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Kamal

Without tourists come to me, I'm dead, do you understand?

Bjork

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Dogen

Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Dogen

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Stephen Jay Gould

You put three facts together - that all organisms produce more offspring that can survive, that there's variation among organisms, and that at least some of that variation is inherited - and the syllogistic inference is natural selection.

Stephen Jay Gould

But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.

Ann Landers

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, ""What happened?

Diane von Furstenberg

Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Bill Engvall

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.