Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lesley Visser

What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.

Lesley Visser

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.

Lesley Garrett

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

Leonard Maltin

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

Leonard Peltier

We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The FBI with its unlimited resources has done everything it possibly can to keep me in prison.

Lemn Sissay

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

Lena Headey

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

Lemmy Kilmister

You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.

Lemmy Kilmister

It will be funny in about 10 years.

Lee Majors

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

Lee Majors

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year

Lee Kuan Yew

That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!

Lee Kuan Yew

If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.

Lee Kuan Yew

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

Laura Osnes

Bonnie and Clyde was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.

Laura Prepon

To make a long story short, I auditioned for the role of Piper because I read the pilots every year and this show was head-and-shoulders above any pilot I've read in awhile. It was amazing. So, I read for Piper and I knew that I wasn't really right for it, but I loved it so much that I wanted to read for it.

The black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact.

Larry Ellison

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

Larry Ellison

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

Larry David

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Lady Starlight

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.

Lady Gregory

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Lady Gregory

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

Kylie Minogue

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Kylie Minogue

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

Kylie Minogue

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

Neil Shubin

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

Marcus Garvey

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

Marco Rubio

It was a very unusual year [2015]. You usually don't have five campaigns operating full time in a state this late into the process, three states in. But I feel great that now that the choices have become less and less, more and more that new voter or alternative to Donald Trump vote, is going to coalesce around us.

Marco Rubio

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

Marco Rubio

I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

Marco Rubio

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

Marcus Aurelius

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.