Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Kevin Pietersen

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

Norma Shearer

An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.

Chet Faker

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Edmund Waller

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

V. S. Naipaul

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Fred Thompson

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

John Irving

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Mike Myers

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

Donna Summer

And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.

Neale Donald Walsch

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

Olga Korbut

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

Robbie Coltrane

And I think he's been very keen to do that.

Kinky Friedman

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

George Benson

Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.

Scott Hamilton

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

John Grisham

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

Colin Hanks

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.

Samuel Goldwyn

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

James Broughton

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

Peter DeFazio

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

Steve-O

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

Lafcadio Hearn

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

Elle Macpherson

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

George Muller

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

Lawrence Durrell

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

Herb Caen

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

John le Carre

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

William Ralph Inge

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Kate Moss

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

Kyle MacLachlan

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

Gerry Mulligan

Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years.

Michael Korda

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

David Rakoff

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.

Todd Tiahrt

Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

Emily Oster

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

John Bytheway

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Clare Boothe Luce

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Ogden Nash

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Lewis Black

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

George Ayittey

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Diogenes

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Lesley Manville

A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?'

Kyra Sedgwick

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Moshe Dayan

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

Michael Franti

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Jerry Saltz

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Alphonso Jackson

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.