Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tatiana Maslany

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

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!

Leo Buscaglia

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

Chris Ware

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Hillary Clinton

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Simon Pegg

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

Mira Sorvino

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Susan George

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Peter Ackroyd

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Saul Bellow

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Sarah Sutton

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.

Lee Scott

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

H. L. Mencken

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

Lionel Messi

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Otto von Bismarck

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Thomas Hobbes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Galen Rowell

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Van Morrison

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Joan D. Vinge

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Harrison Ford

The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.

Paolo Bacigalupi

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Carlos Slim

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

George A. Romero

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

Lisa Ling

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Josh Billings

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Sitting Bull

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Joni Mitchell

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

Philip Zimbardo

There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.

Victor Cruz

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

Kristi Yamaguchi

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

Mariella Frostrup

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

Morgan Freeman

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

David Bailey

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

Kirstie Alley

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Nigel Lythgoe

There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.

Lena Headey

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'

Luke Wilson

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

Marie Osmond

That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.