Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Barbera

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

Roman Coppola

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Paula Creamer

An American champion, obviously being here in the states, is something that we all look at with the U.S. Open. But golf is played all over the world, and there are so many great golfers from other countries, and we're lucky enough that this is our home base to be able to play out of.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Stanislav Grof

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Paul Robeson

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

Robert Fripp

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Lynn Redgrave

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.

George J. Mitchell

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

Michael Bloomberg

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

Jimmy Buffett

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Brian Mulroney

And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!

Bob Geldof

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Sela Ward

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Mayer Hawthorne

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Robert Vaughn

About 15 years later, I was given all 113 episodes on tape.

Golda Meir

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Sidney Sheldon

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Immanuel Kant

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Melody Beattie

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Tina Fey

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

Clemence Poesy

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

Judd Gregg

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

Frank B. Kellogg

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

Peter Thiel

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

Ann Voskamp

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

Leonard Mlodinow

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Jill Scott

African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.

Laurence J. Peter

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Ron Paul

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Cesar Millan

Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

Aeschylus

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Norman Cousins

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

Flannery O'Connor

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Mencius

A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.

Daniel Craig

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Moby

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

Amity Shlaes

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Barry Eisler

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Kin Hubbard

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed

David Frum

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

Robert Wyatt

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

Robert Fulghum

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Barry Ritholtz

Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.