Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline Leavitt

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Kofi Annan

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Richard Engel

Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.

Lance Loud

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

Donnie Wahlberg

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Jello Biafra

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Alison Gopnik

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Sebastian Vettel

Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

Beverly Cleary

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Pearl S. Buck

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

FKA twigs

Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

Michael K. Simpson

Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

Ronnie Wood

Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

Michael Kors

The '90s will be looked back on as ushering in an era of comfort.

Frank Luntz

The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it.

George Washington

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Ai Weiwei

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Alex Berenson

The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.

Seamus Heaney

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

Kenneth R. Miller

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Vaclav Havel

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

Andy Rooney

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

Thurston Moore

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

Harbhajan Singh

The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'

Gene Simmons

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

Michio Kaku

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

John Burroughs

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Lionel Blue

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Anthony Anderson

Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

Joan Baez

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Nas

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

Henry Cloud

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

Gina Bellman

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

Christopher Darden

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

Ryan Lochte

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Fiona Apple

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

Allen Klein

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Leon Kass

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

John Berger

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Anderson Cooper

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Richard Powers

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Tommy Hilfiger

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

Christopher Hitchens

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Jon Katz

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

Joyce Giraud

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.