Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Keitel

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

Kesha

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

Harrison Ford

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

Samantha Fox

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

Laura Marling

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

Anna Quindlen

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

Wole Soyinka

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

Max Weber

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Saina Nehwal

All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.

Delta Burke

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

Nikita Khrushchev

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Maimonides

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

Steve Sabol

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

Katie Couric

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.

James Buchan

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

Catherine Bell

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

Nate Berkus

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

B. B. King

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Ingrid Newkirk

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

Lenny Kravitz

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

Robert Carlyle

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Ace Frehley

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Luanne Rice

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

Tinie Tempah

A lot of young people have all these aspirations but many of them don't believe they're possible.

Brian Eno

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

Joyce Maynard

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Lawrence Kasdan

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Tobin Bell

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

George Eads

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

Nigella Lawson

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

Jonathan Kozol

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Corbin Bernsen

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.

Tim Vine

Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Lafcadio Hearn

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

William Safire

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

Jessamyn West

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

William Blake

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Suzanne Somers

Artificial sweeteners may trigger cravings for other sweet foods. When your body is not fed nutrients, it asks again and again for more food, triggering heavy-duty cravings for fattening, sugary foods. Artificial sweeteners also mess with your metabolism.

Roy Ayers

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

Anselm Kiefer

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Neil Armstrong

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Naveen Jain

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

Chris Hughes

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

Ryan Giggs

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

P. T. Barnum

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

Charles B. Rangel

As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.