Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Maynard Keynes

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Sandra Lee

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Jonathan Sacks

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.

Patrick J. Kennedy

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

Wole Soyinka

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.

Mark Hoppus

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

Paul Ricoeur

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Paul Harris

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

Cobi Jones

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.

Kelly Lynch

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

Will Self

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

Horace

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Margaret Fuller

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Caroline Knapp

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.

Angie Stone

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

Eric Schmidt

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Paula Abdul

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Steve Earle

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

Venus Williams

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

Jimmie Johnson

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

Pierre de Coubertin

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Werner Herzog

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

Mark McKinnon

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

Tahar Rahim

Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

Anish Kapoor

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Ja Rule

That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

Alice Oswald

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Swami Vivekananda

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Glenn Greenwald

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Paul Lynde

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

Robert Foster Bennett

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself

Mattie Stepanek

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Saint Ambrose

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Donella Meadows

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Rem Koolhaas

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

Uzo Aduba

The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Ernestine Rose

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Paramahansa Yogananda

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

Stokely Carmichael

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

Patti Davis

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

Moshe Dayan

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Meir Soloveichik

The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

Tadashi Yanai

People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

Alice Cooper

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

Banks

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.