Famous Quotes & Sayings

George William Norris

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Shannon Hoon

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

Neil Armstrong

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Neil Tennant

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

George Carey

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

Lorene Scafaria

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Albert Ellis

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

Sherman Alexie

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

Christian Lous Lange

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Sylvia Plath

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Buddha

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Greta Garbo

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Elizabeth Warren

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Edward Carpenter

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Lisa Gardner

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Gene Tierney

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Ramakrishna

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

David Ogilvy

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Ruth Bernhard

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Aidan Gillen

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Harold Prince

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

Kelly Hu

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

Laz Alonso

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.

Ana Gasteyer

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

Jordin Sparks

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

Daniel Tosh

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

Ernest Istook

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

Charles de Lint

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Rupert Friend

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

Alice Sebold

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

Broderick Crawford

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

Edie Falco

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

Ian Mcewan

It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.

Anne Wojcicki

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

Meir Kahane

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Amelia Barr

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Richard M. Nixon

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Reza Aslan

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

Julius Caesar

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Donald Rumsfeld

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Angela Ahrendts

It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

Elizabeth George

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

Robert De Niro

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Marilu Henner

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.