Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman MacCaig

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Alana Stewart

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

Barbara Kingsolver

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Corbin Bernsen

It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

Roger Goodell

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

Alice Waters

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

Pete Hegseth

It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to taking sensible looks at positions and understanding the proper role of government.

Yoko Ono

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Steven Van Zandt

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

David Attenborough

It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

Pattie Boyd

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

Holly Black

I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.

Phil Jackson

I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved.

Uzo Aduba

I think theres something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

Pete Seeger

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Sadie Jones

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

Kathryn Bigelow

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

Gillian Anderson

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.

Kevin Eubanks

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

Michele Bachmann

I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.

Kelly Reilly

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

Joel Coen

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

Patrick Wilson

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

Tiger Woods

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

Harry Mathews

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

Kimberley Nixon

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw 'Pride And Prejudice,' the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for 'Cranford' to be my first job was poetic, really.

Derek Jacobi

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

Anita Hill

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

Tori Spelling

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Robert Kennedy

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

John Henry Newman

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Felix Frankfurter

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Mae West

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

James Thurber

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Russell Simmons

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

Kenny Rogers

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

Sun Tzu

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus double agents are recruited and used.

Steve Burns

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

Ani Difranco

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Henry Cabot Lodge

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

Paul Westerberg

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

Jimi Hendrix

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.

Liev Schreiber

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

Morihei Ueshiba

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Alva Myrdal

It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.

George MacDonald

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Thomas Aquinas

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.