Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Filler

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Daniel Boulud

After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.

Larry Hagman

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Theodore Bikel

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

David Ricardo

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Alfred Nobel

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

Sholom Aleichem

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

Satchel Paige

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Ellsworth Huntington

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

Michael Pitt

A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will produce, perhaps, more less-interesting things - or you'll have to search more to find the interesting things. But I also think it's exciting.

Paul Pierce

At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

Gillian Anderson

At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.

Bill Bruford

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

Charlize Theron

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Peter Carey

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

Hilda Solis

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

Christine Baranski

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

Alison Bechdel

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Ken Follett

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

Oliver Stone

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Phil McGraw

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Mo Rocca

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

Elton John

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Ulrich Beck

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Hamilton Jordan

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

Vitruvius

An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.

Jackie Kennedy

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Kristin Chenoweth

A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.

Cathy Guisewite

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

Kevin Kelly

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Ernie Banks

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

Woodrow Wilson

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

David Cassidy

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

John Wayne

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

Wislawa Szymborska

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Lucas Till

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Thomas a Kempis

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Christian Bale

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

Emilia Clarke

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

Isabel Allende

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Louise Hay

All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are

Ernie Pyle

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Keira Knightley

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Lynn Shelton

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

Meat Loaf

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

Rebecca Ferguson

A lot of negative stuff has happened to me - that's why I'm tough - but I don't want people to be like, 'Oh, poor Becky,' because I'm not a victim.

Victoria Wood

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.