Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Mirren

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

Eugene Jarecki

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

George MacDonald

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

Matthew Macfadyen

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

Stephen Ambrose

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Scott Adams

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Martin Yan

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Ed Asner

You don't work with Cloris Leachman, you experience her.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

Nikki Sixx

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Patricia Richardson

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

Barry Mann

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

Clint Eastwood

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Michael Nesmith

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.

Douglas Wilson

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

Branford Marsalis

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

Chester Brown

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

Stone Gossard

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

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.

Meg Whitman

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track

Elizabeth Gilbert

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Chuck Norris

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

Anna Paquin

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

Elizabeth George

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.

Sam Harris

While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

Steven Sinofsky

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

Thomas E. Mann

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Padmasree Warrior

While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

Vanessa Paradis

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

Carmelo Anthony

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

Eric Liu

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

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?

Dawn French

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

Annie Lennox

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

Harry S Truman

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Donald Trump

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Marlo Thomas

You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

Mark Wahlberg

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Steve Martin

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

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.

George Burns

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Hillary Scott

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Shay Mitchell

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.

Drew Brees

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.

George Clooney

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.

Marcus Garvey

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.