Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Cobden

You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.

Anthony Fauci

You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn't be ashamed to call that a 'universal vaccine.'

John Ruskin

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Peter Coyote

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Khalil Gibran

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Henry B. Eyring

With aging comes physical and emotional challenge. We cannot seem to get as much done in an hour as we did in youth. And it is harder to be patient with others, and they seem more demanding.

Emily VanCamp

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

Robin Gibb

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

Carrie Brownstein

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

Michael Mullen

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Douglas Wood

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Stevie Nicks

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

Marc Newson

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Mark Spitz

So in my mind I own a lot of house records still

Tim Vine

So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'

Carrot Top

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

Blake Lively

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

Lee Ann Womack

So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others

Joel Madden

So I wanna see all of you making out during this song.

Fay Wray

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Thomas Merton

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Alain Prost

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Steven Pinker

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Wangari Maathai

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Wendell Phillips

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Mario Cuomo

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Darell Hammond

Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

Adam Ant

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Della Reese

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them

Blaise Pascal

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Brittany Murphy

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Jared Leto

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.

Stewart Udall

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

Alonzo Mourning

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

Anne McCaffrey

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

Dennis Potter

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Tyler Cowen

In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.

Cathy Guisewite

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Virginia Foxx

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

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.