Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cobi Jones

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

Coco Chanel

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Claire Forlani

I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.

Clara Hughes

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

Claire Messud

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

Elizabeth Warren

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

Elizabeth Warren

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

Elizabeth Hurley

It took me six years to be comfortable modeling a swimsuit.

Elizabeth I

I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

Eli Wallach

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years

Eli Manning

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

Eli Roth

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

Eli Roth

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

Eli Roth

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

Arthur Hertzberg

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

Armand Assante

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

Armie Hammer

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

Alex Rodriguez

I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

Alessandra Ambrosio

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

Alec Issigonis

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

Alec Guinness

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

Alberto Salazar

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

Alberto Salazar

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

Albert Einstein

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Albert Einstein

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Alger Hiss

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

Alfred P. Sloan

I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

Alfred P. Sloan

Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.