Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Grant

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Amy Grant

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue

Amy Chua

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

Amy Chua

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Amy Chua

China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

Althea Gibson

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

Alonzo Mourning

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

Alonzo Mourning

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

Allison Williams

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.

Allison Williams

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Alma Guillermoprieto

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Anne Murray

We are all more capable than we think we are.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

Anne Robinson

I'd make banks more accountable. I think they should separate totally the personal banking arm with whatever else they are playing around with.

Anne Robinson

I've had a lot of dates, but I don't think there's been anyone that special or important.

Anne Roiphe

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

Anne Roiphe

People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.

Anne Roiphe

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

Anne Roiphe

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

Anne Roiphe

I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

Anne Roiphe

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.

Anne Sexton

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ...

Anne Sexton

I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.

Anne Sexton

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Anne Rice

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

Anne Rice

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Anne Rice

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Anne Rice

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

Anne Rice

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach...

Anne Rice

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

Anne Rice

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.