Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Maynard James Keenan

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Neneh Cherry

To me, a song is a song when you can sit in a room and just sing it from end to end.

John Milton

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Gerry Adams

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Billy Crystal

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Sarah Palin

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Rob Manuel

Try celebrating the best and not the worst.

Michael Bloomberg

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Jean Giraudoux

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

Adam Schiff

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Laurie Colwin

Unlike some people, who love to go out, I love to stay home.

Bob Woodward

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Barbara Bush

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Tom Waits

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Robert Fripp

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

David Icke

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

Bikram Choudhury

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders.

Andre Leon Talley

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Johannes Tauler

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Chris Cornell

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.

Seth Rogen

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Alphonso Jackson

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

Sufjan Stevens

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.

Albert Brooks

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Bill Gates

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Leland Stanford

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Peter Tork

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

Daymond John

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

Brit Hume

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.

Martin Freeman

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

Eric Ries

The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.

Robert Carlyle

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

Sid Waddell

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Mao Zedong

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Kristin Armstrong

We either live with intention or exist by default.

Corin Nemec

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.

Charles Stanley

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

Robert Vaughn

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Lennon Parham

When I began to study baby delivery, when I was about to have a baby, I became very into it and fascinated and what our body does and how a mother's body temperature will rise the minute that the baby touches her chest because she needs to get warmer.

Kerry Greenwood

I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.