Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Townshend

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Rick Baker

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

Patrick Rothfuss

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

William Ralph Inge

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

George P. Shultz

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

D. H. Lawrence

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

Hans Rosling

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

Emma Thompson

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

Christopher Lasch

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Barbara Ehrenreich

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

Callie Khouri

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

Willie Geist

There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.

Drew Barrymore

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

Brene Brown

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Robert Gottlieb

The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

Chloe Grace Moretz

The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.

John Shelby Spong

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

Nick Vujicic

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Diana Nyad

The box jellyfish takes you into an area of what I'd call science fiction. You feel like you've been dipped in hot burning oil. You burst into flames.

Franklin P. Jones

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Erwin McManus

The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.

John Oates

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

Pat Conroy

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Gary Vaynerchuk

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

Kit Harington

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

Warren Buffett

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Mikhail Gorbachev

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Neil Jordan

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Marilyn Manson

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Kin Hubbard

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Zoe Lister-Jones

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

Hope Davis

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

Wilbur Smith

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Jeffrey Kluger

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Elizabeth Berkley

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

Natalie Portman

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

Dan Harmon

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

Prince

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Peter De Vries

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

Dean Wareham

The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?

Sally Field

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Bee Wilson

The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.

Elizabeth Strout

The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!