Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.

Thomas Moore

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Chuck Todd

It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.

James Cash Penney

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

Tim Crouch

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

James Hillman

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

William Gibson

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Joe Cocker

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?

Kurt Busch

It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.

Quvenzhane Wallis

It's kind of good to do things while you're young.

Alice Cooper

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

Chick Corea

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.

Imran Khan

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Amber Heard

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

Tinashe

It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

Aesop

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Erin O'Connor

It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'

Harvey Pekar

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

George MacDonald

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

Hailee Steinfeld

It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.

Lexa Doig

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

Alexa Chung

I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

Peter Coyote

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Ariana Grande

I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Lesley Gore

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Seth Green

I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles.

Bill Murray

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

Marc Faber

I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

Ivanka Trump

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.

Kelly Osbourne

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

Dick Schaap

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Kevin Bacon

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Carrot Top

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

Carmelo Anthony

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.

Todd Phillips

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.

Ken Salazar

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

Yakov Smirnoff

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

John Philip Sousa

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Jaron Lanier

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

Carmen Electra

Am I still interested in a guy's body? Now that I have grown up, I am much more of a 'vibe' kind of person! If a man has a good body, that is an added plus.

Regina King

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Hassan Nasrallah

Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.

Evel Knievel

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

Ang Lee

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Alexis de Tocqueville

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

Vincent Van Gogh

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Hayley Hasselhoff

An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they're formed. It's becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it. We all have two different parents; we're not supposed to look the same. It's ridiculous.