Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Kitsch

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

George Soros

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

Mickey Rourke

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

Boz Scaggs

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

Sophia Amoruso

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.

Thomas Hardy

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

R. A. Salvatore

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

Chino Moreno

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well.

Nicole Richie

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.

Howard Rheingold

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

Pat Riley

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

John Berger

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

George Wald

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Josh Billings

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Grace Paley

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

Clive Owen

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

Jorge Luis Borges

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

William Blake

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Benny Green

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

Harry Lloyd

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Griffin Dunne

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

Naomi Wolf

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

Judd Nelson

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

John McWhorter

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

Patrick Swayze

As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

Joe Torre

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Pitbull

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

Louise Slaughter

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Marc Maron

As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.

Laurel Clark

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Gary Wolf

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

Mel Torme

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

Jasmine Guinness

As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

Tamara Ecclestone

As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.

Kevin McCarthy

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

James Stephens

A secret is a weapon and a friend.

Albert J. Nock

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Lesley Gore

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.

Claude Chabrol

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

Gerhard Schroder

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

Eric Church

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Ursula K. Le Guin

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

James McGreevey

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

John James Audubon

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Neil Innes

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

Donald Evans

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

Simon Schama

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.