Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Walters

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Barbara Walters

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

Barbara Walters

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

Barbara Tuchman

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

Aya Cash

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

Aya Cash

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

Avril Lavigne

I think it's important to find a line that suits your body, your body type, that you're comfortable in.

Arthur Erickson

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Arthur Eddington

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

Arthur Eddington

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Arthur Eddington

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Arthur Golden

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Black Elk

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

Bill Frist

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Bill Goldberg

As far as the path of [Bill] Goldberg and all his ultimate success, I don't think any of that was planned. It was all organic. All of it was so different.

Betty Friedan

Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.

Benjamin Whichcote

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

Bill Gates

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

Bill Gates

I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.

Bill Gates

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

Bill Gates

Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

Bill Gates

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Bob Schieffer

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Bob Graham

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.

Bob Geldof

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Bob Barker

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Chelsea Clinton

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Che Guevara

It is an illusion to think that the matter cannot be resolved through words.

Chelsea Handler

I met my first midget in Mexico, and he was a waiter with a sombrero on his head, filled with chips and salsa. Like I was gonna let that guy get away - I don't think so.