Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupe Fiasco

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

John Abizaid

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

Christopher Moore

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.

Stephanie Mills

I thought that I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson, but I was ready at 20 and 21 to get married, and he was not even close to getting married or having a girlfriend at that time, but yes, we dated. We dated for a while.

Sarah Sutton

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.

Abu Bakr

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Dave Barry

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

Shekhar Kapur

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

Friedrich Schiller

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Richard Neal

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Nimrat Kaur

It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs.

Emily Browning

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

Bam Margera

It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in - that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

Mary Wesley

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

John Battelle

It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. Facebook came at it through friends, cunningly organized. Dropbox came to it via files, cleverly clouded.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Carlisle Floyd

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

Neil Peart

It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.

Graydon Carter

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Kellan Lutz

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

Kerry King

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

Kin Hubbard

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

Laurie Anderson

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

Colleen Atwood

It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

Anna Paquin

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Geddy Lee

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

Frank A. Clark

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Virgil Goode

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Orison Swett Marden

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

William Osler

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Karl Marx

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Frances O'Grady

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

Aneurin Bevan

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Floyd Abrams

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.

Adam Schiff

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Anthony Horowitz

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

James Gleick

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Stella McCartney

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

Niall Horan

It's just impossible to believe I've become good friends with some stars like Justin Bieber. I would call Justin a friend, someone I hang out with. It's really weird.

Chuck Klosterman

It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media.

Brad Garrett

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

Kimora Lee Simmons

It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.

Martha Plimpton

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Emile Durkheim

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Niels Bohr

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

O. Henry

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.