Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Rose

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

Nicholas A. Christakis

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

Genevieve Gorder

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

Sydney Smith

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Dan Quayle

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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?

Martin Heidegger

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Maggie Gallagher

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Gregory Benford

Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

Ben Elliot

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

Agnes Obel

What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.

George Carey

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

Chris Robinson

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

Kesha

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Jackie Kennedy

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

David Chang

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

Haile Gebrselassie

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

Holliday Grainger

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

Michael J. Fox

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Amanda Bynes

When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.

Craig T. Nelson

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

Paddy Considine

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

Rudy Giuliani

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

Adam Rapp

When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.

Chris Hadfield

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.

Lorraine Toussaint

When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

Richie Sambora

When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.

Tabatha Coffey

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

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.

Feist

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Ice T

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Hans Vestberg

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

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.

George Lois

When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from the words and visuals.

Simon Hoggart

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Kelly Rowland

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

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'.

Ravi Zacharias

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Frankie Valli

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

Lenny Kravitz

Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.

John Locke

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Joe Manchin

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.

Stephen Harper

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

Lady Gaga

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Chuck Mangione

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

Chris Pine

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.