Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Bamford

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

Clay Aiken

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Sargent Shriver

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Radhanath Swami

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Alexa Vega

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

Neil Tennant

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Nic Pizzolatto

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Eddie Redmayne

Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

Niall Horan

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.

Mitch Hedberg

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

George Muller

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

Maurice Saatchi

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Willie Mays

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Charisma Carpenter

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Charles R. Swindoll

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Dee Hock

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

David Dinkins

There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

Dee Dee Myers

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

Marian Keyes

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.

Tupac Shakur

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

Bill Nighy

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

David Suzuki

Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

Bobby Flay

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

Alice Morse Earle

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

Bill James

We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes.

Loni Anderson

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Roy Moore

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Al Sharpton

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

Kurt Busch

This 51 Phoenix Racing team, I love them to death. They've got my back, I've got theirs.

James L. Brooks

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

Chris Lowe

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Aretha Franklin

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Marian Seldes

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Casey Kasem

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.

Garry Kasparov

I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

Carl Honore

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Sara Blakely

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Pope Benedict XVI

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Cindy Sheehan

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.