Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ann Romney

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Jordin Sparks

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Peter Riegert

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

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.

Goldie Hawn

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

Andrew Shue

When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.

Audrey Hepburn

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Joshua Foer

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

Newt Gingrich

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

William Glasser

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

Corrine Brown

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

Henry Ian Cusick

With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing.

Aaron Swartz

With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

Michael N. Castle

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.

Neil Marshall

With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

Raymond Chandler

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

Gail Collins

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

Samuel Richardson

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Steve Harvey

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Clare Boothe Luce

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Herbert Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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.

Hulk Hogan

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.