Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Theroux

Being a fan of comedy, it's so unique, in their own voice. I was really stoked to be able to participate. They're so great at just coming up with stuff on the fly and making stuff funny.

Judy Biggert

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

George MacDonald

But it is not the rich person only who is under the domination of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

Emanuel Celler

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Your fear is just as boring as mine is. Everyone's got the same one. It is not precious. It is not special. It is not singular to you. It's just the one we all got wired with when we came in. Focus on your unique qualities that deserve to be celebrated and put fear back in its place. Don't listen to it. Onward.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Joan Crawford

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Jimmy Piersall

There is no better therapy than understanding.

Louise Hay

My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

John Flavel

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

John Flavel

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

John F. Kennedy

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle.

John F. Kennedy

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

Jonathan Lethem

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts.

Jonathan Horton

The Olympics is a huge deal, and there's such an adrenaline rush, but I am one of those people that finds every little victory in life extremely satisfying - the day I got married, the day I moved into my house, the first car I bought, becoming an uncle. The little victories in life really keep you going, and none of those are any less special than the Olympic team.

Jonathan Haidt

Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and of modern science are both needed to reach a full understanding of human nature and the conditions of human satisfaction. The ancients may have known little about biology, chemistry, physics, but many were good psychologists.

Jonathan Franzen

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

Jonathan Demme

Every film deserves its own unique look.

Jonas Mekas

My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

Jonah Goldberg

As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle.

Kate Voegele

I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

Kate Atkinson

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

Justin Vernon

I've been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get with it, feel behind it a little bit, but that's good actually, probably. That way, I'm still sort of understanding it.

Julie Andrews

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

Judith Martin

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

Josh Hartnett

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

Katherine Dunn

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Jim Kaat

Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

John McCain

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.