Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Kerr

I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.

Angela Davis

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

Todd Phillips

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.

Ray Comfort

John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.

Christie Brinkley

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

Ted Turner

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

Henny Youngman

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Scotty McCreery

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

Lionel Richie

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

Michael Specter

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Miuccia Prada

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Steve Albini

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

Melissa Bean

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

Fritz Sauckel

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

Chuck Jones

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Jim Carrey

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Roberto Benigni

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

Joel Coen

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

P. T. Barnum

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was intensive training in meditative discipline.

Rivers Cuomo

Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.

Kate Millett

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Louise Hay

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

Pattie Boyd

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

Christian Louboutin

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

Shawn Amos

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

Lexa Doig

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

Douglas Rushkoff

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Michael Porter

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

Randy Jackson

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

Ang Lee

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Patton Oswalt

Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

Lee Konitz

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

Marilu Henner

Lack of time is a real health killer.

Ashley Madekwe

I love trashy reality TV - all of it.

Joss Whedon

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

Joe Rogan

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Elizabeth Taylor

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

David Souter

If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.

Muqtada al Sadr

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Michael Ignatieff

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

Jose Rizal

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

Karl Kraus

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Sean Parker

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

John Boyd Orr

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Peter Ustinov

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.