Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clemence Poesy

That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film.

Anthony Mackie

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

Anna Quindlen

Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.

Cillian Murphy

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

Angela Merkel

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

Angela Merkel

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

Angela Carter

Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

Angela Carter

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

Anson Mount

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

Anthony Bourdain

In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.

Andy Rooney

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

Andy Stanley

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Andy Stanley

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

Amy Goodman

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Ann Romney

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

Ann Romney

Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.

Anais Nin

She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

Anais Nin

Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.

Amanda Schull

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

Anne Fortier

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Anne Carson

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Anne Hathaway

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

Anne Frank

Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.

Anjem Choudary

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

Anita Sarkeesian

I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

Ann Aguirre

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

Soledad O'Brien

I've never taken fashion too seriously. I try to enjoy it.

Robert Frost

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

Robert Fulghum

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.

Robert Fulghum

Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH

Robert Frost

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

Robert Benchley

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

Rita Hayworth

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.