Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rutherford B. Hayes

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...

Anna Wintour

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

David Soul

It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

Marshall Herskovitz

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

Frances Mayes

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Piper Perabo

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

Carlisle Floyd

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

Lauren Myracle

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.

Jessica Valenti

It's not always easy being a full-time feminist - especially as a young woman - when you're constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I'm on the defense all the time.

Henry Kravis

It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

Timothy Geithner

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.

Phillips Brooks

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Philip Kaufman

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.

Gloria Stuart

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

Christa McAuliffe

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

Leslie Caron

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

Tommy Caldwell

I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.

Rutger Hauer

I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

Leroy Chiao

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

Tinie Tempah

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Molly Sims

I think it's important to come from a humble place.

Colin Firth

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Tracy Anderson

I think it's very important to feed the body what it craves and not be in your head about it, panicking, carrying around some calorie-counting wheel in your bag or something equally absurd. I'm really not a fan of that at all.

Felicity Huffman

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

Jeremy Irons

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Rebecca Romijn

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

Nicole Richie

I think lingerie plays a big part in how you carry yourself.

Patty Griffin

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

Eric Bana

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

Samuel Goldwyn

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Giancarlo Esposito

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

Neil Innes

I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

Donald Judd

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Alex Winter

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Sufjan Stevens

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Helena Bonham Carter

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

Grace Slick

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Kim Gordon

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

Wong Kar-wai

I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.

Alfre Woodard

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

Queen Victoria

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.

Neil Diamond

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Andy Summers

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

Michel Houellebecq

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

Shaun Alexander

I think that it won't be long before a team calls that says, 'Just go do what you do'.