Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Ellison

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

Niklas Zennstrom

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block,

Iyanla Vanzant

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

Sarah Vowell

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Mike Quigley

Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.

Mario Batali

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Ludwig von Mises

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Victoria Justice

People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.

Nicolle Wallace

People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging.

Dan Lipinski

People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

Michael Palin

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

Utada Hikaru

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

Maisie Williams

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Richard Sherman

People don't talk much about my punt returns.

Zach Galifianakis

People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

Matt Groening

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

Thom Yorke

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Willard Scott

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

Marina Abramovic

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Kate Walsh

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Ted Allen

For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

Lynn Abbey

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Vidal Sassoon

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Gary Weiss

For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

Whoopi Goldberg

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Max Lucado

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

Terence

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Ryan Reynolds

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

Marianne Faithfull

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Azim Premji

Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Greg Kinnear

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

Emmy Rossum

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Tina Fey

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Glenn Beck

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

Louis Farrakhan

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Oriana Fallaci

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Chris Van Allsburg

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

Gillian Jacobs

I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

Richard Carmona

I am not a Hispanic candidate. I am an American candidate who happens to be of Hispanic heritage, who understands the culture, who has worked the border and has a unique understanding of those issues. But rest assured my job is to represent all Americans as a U.S. senator.

Willie Nelson

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

John Travolta

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

Mandy Moore

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

Anna Netrebko

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Woody Allen

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

R. Kelly

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me.

Colm Toibin

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.