Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Bikel

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Kym Whitley

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

George S. Patton

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Garry Trudeau

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Chuck Todd

I'm an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she's a Florida State alum, so I wouldn't have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we're weird.

Allen Tate

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Dick Gregory

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Todd Park

We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.

Lyle Lovett

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Anthony Foxx

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

Howard Nemerov

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Juan Williams

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

Eva Herzigova

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Jeff Greenfield

One of the litmus tests for judicial conservatism is the idea of judicial restraint - that courts should give substantial deference to the decisions of the political process. When Congress and the president enact a law, conservatives generally say, judges should avoid 'legislating from the bench.'

Brandi Carlile

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

Chris Chocola

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

Kylie Minogue

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

Mario Testino

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

Lech Walesa

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

John Bytheway

Thanks to the restored gospel, we know our spirits lived before we were born into this mortal existence.

Edwin Louis Cole

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

George Ayittey

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

Edvard Munch

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Dave Chappelle

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Romeo Miller

If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.

Tinashe

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

Stephen Stills

God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it

Dwight Schultz

It sort of filtered into their subconscious through motion pictures, but it's an historical secret. This - whatever this is - needs to be studied and, in a kind of definitive way, talked about.

Corey Taylor

The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Alexis Arguello

If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

Dennis Rodman

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

Atom Egoyan

The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Helen Thomas

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Jason Calacanis

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

Treat Williams

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

Chiang Kai-shek

Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

Helen Sharman

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

Marvin Sapp

I chose to sing in the church, and have never regretted it.

Brett Hull

I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.

Rob Lowe

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Ben Stiller

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.

Chris Squire

In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.

Deborah Norville

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Bruce Beresford

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Kim Yuna

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.