Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rob Corddry

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

Jose Bergamin

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

Jerzy Kosinski

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Robert Plant

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Victor Koo

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Penelope Lively

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

Julie Andrews

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

Debbie Stabenow

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

Muhammad Ali

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

John Dryden

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

Pat Metheny

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Taryn Manning

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans

Theodore Roosevelt

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Bobbi Brown

When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'

Christopher Nolan

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

Carl Hiaasen

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Robert Goulet

When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out.

Jessica Valenti

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Dan Stevens

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

Rachel Maddow

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

Bobby Womack

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

Robert M. Gates

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.