Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dennis Prager

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Mark Hamill

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.

Jeff Goldblum

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

Craig Ferguson

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

Clive Anderson

Well, I'm happier talking about other people than me.

Ann Richards

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Cary Fukunaga

I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Damon Lindelof

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

Tracey Gold

I've been so in my moment about my life.

Hayao Miyazaki

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

Neil Diamond

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

Margot Kidder

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

Eddie Huang

I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Bipasha Basu

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

Nell Newman

Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.

Chloe Sevigny

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

Bill Watterson

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.