Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madonna Ciccone

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

Madonna Ciccone

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

Madonna Ciccone

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.

Macaulay Culkin

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Lucinda Williams

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

Liv Tyler

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

Margaret Mahy

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Michael Jackson

So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.

Michael Crichton

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

Mia Farrow

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

Michel De Certeau

A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the 'proper' rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own 'proper' and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability.

Michel De Certeau

The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

Michel de Montaigne

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Michel de Montaigne

Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Michel de Montaigne

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Michael Myers

'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.

Mark Twain

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Jack Abramoff

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

Jerry Bailey

She's taken everything that's been thrown at her,

On the day of the funeral, I was just taken by it all - I didn't want it to be forgotten.

Kevin Spacey

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

I don't think it's to be taken too seriously,

J. Taylor

If they'd have taken it, they'd be dead.

She's not just our coach, she's our mentor. We don't want her taken away from us.

I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.

P. J. O'Rourke

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

I feel very, very vindicated. It's taken a long time.

I feel like I have been taken for a ride.

Jim Gerlach

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

Jenny Shipley

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

Jenny Slate

There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.

Jeff Kinney

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.