Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Frame

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

Frederick Douglass

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Chip Conley

When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

Martin Gore

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

Ralph Fiennes

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

Florence Welch

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Bob Hope

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

Thomas a Kempis

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Kevin O'Leary

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Benicio Del Toro

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

Herbert A. Simon

Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.

Frankie Valli

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

William Osler

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

Harry Mathews

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Kitty Kelley

When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

Al Roker

When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.

Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Richard Pryor

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

David E. Kelley

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

Stella McCartney

When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.

David Cronenberg

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Christopher Moore

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.

William Glasser

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Raymond Chandler

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Sean Booth

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount.

Mortimer Adler

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Jim Henson

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

Alfred Molina

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

Bono

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Steve Forbert

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Richard Russo

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Chaim Potok

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Ivan Lendl

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.

Alan Shearer

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

Helen Mirren

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

Branford Marsalis

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Leonard Nimoy

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Waylon Jennings

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Carmelo Anthony

Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?

Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Alan Sugar

Why work when you can fill out a few forms and get paid for doing nothing?

Annie Lennox

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Michael Gove

You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.