Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Grant

Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.

Lea Salonga

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

Jami Gertz

We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers.

Tom Brady

To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.

Sam Altman

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

Chester Bennington

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.

George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Bob McDonnell

Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.

Steve Buscemi

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Lynda Resnick

I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.

Nick Harkaway

I'm fascinated by human agency - by the process of decision, both in the individual and the mass.

Kreayshawn

Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop.

Michael Strahan

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

Diablo Cody

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Elizabeth Moon

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Avril Lavigne

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

Cat Deeley

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Leo Tolstoy

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Martin Seligman

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

Alyssa Milano

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

Alain Robert

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Maynard James Keenan

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Gerry Adams

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Billy Crystal

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Sarah Palin

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Rob Manuel

Try celebrating the best and not the worst.

Michael Bloomberg

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Jean Giraudoux

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

Adam Schiff

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Laurie Colwin

Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

Bob Woodward

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Barbara Bush

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Tom Waits

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Robert Fripp

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

David Icke

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Andre Leon Talley

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Johannes Tauler

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Chris Cornell

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.

Seth Rogen

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.