Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Heckerling

I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.

Oleg Cassini

Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Helen Clark

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.

Talcott Parsons

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

William Westmoreland

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

Nicholas Kristof

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Cher

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Sherilyn Fenn

Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early '90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.

Don Kardong

Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Ed Begley, Jr.

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

Bruce Lipton

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Dan Brown

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

Clyde Tombaugh

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

John Wycliffe

The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Dionne Warwick

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

Miroslav Volf

For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.

Topher Grace

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

Diane Paulus

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Zygmunt Bauman

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

George Soros

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

F. Sionil Jose

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

Jasper Johns

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Denzel Washington

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Kenneth L. Pike

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

Eddie Vedder

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

Michael Keaton

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

Swami Sivananda

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Dikembe Mutombo

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.

Charles Darwin

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

George Michael

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

Dan Auerbach

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Audre Lorde

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

Famke Janssen

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

Ayrton Senna

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Thomas Bangalter

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

Charles Bass

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

Boz Scaggs

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

Diane Keaton

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

John Ridley

With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.

Lynsey Addario

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

Charles Spurgeon

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Robert Mueller

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.