Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

J. J. Abrams

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

Joseph Addison

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Arnold H. Glasow

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Abu Bakar Bashir

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Jerry Garcia

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Theodor Herzl

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

Freddie Mercury

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

John Lithgow

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

Mignon McLaughlin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Hayley Atwell

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

Julie Burchill

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

Desiree Rogers

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

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.

Haruki Murakami

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Tony Campolo

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

Jeff Koons

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Thornton Wilder

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Rihanna

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

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.

Eduard Shevardnadze

When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

Leslie Caron

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

Viggo Mortensen

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

Wayne Coyne

When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

Tommy Lasorda

When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

Steven Moffat

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

Richard Pryor

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

Patrick Swayze

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

Orson Welles

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Anne Sweeney

When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.

Natalia Vodianova

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Irrfan Khan

When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

David E. Kelley

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

Ted Rall

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

Yanni

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

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.

Richard Simmons

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

Tamara Mellon

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

Larry Elder

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Marsha Blackburn

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

Susan B. Anthony

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Norman Cousins

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

David Cronenberg

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