Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Jones

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Celine Dion

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Eric Maskin

How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?

Iggy Pop

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

Cameron Russell

I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

Phoebe Philo

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Emma Bonino

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.

Holly Holm

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

John Philip Sousa

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up in the church and had always questioned what they were telling me.

Tom Araya

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer

Chris Matthews

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

Rodney Dangerfield

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Dan Savage

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

John Mellencamp

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

Vicente Fox

Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

Ernie Els

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Marcel Proust

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Marcia Gay Harden

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

Antonio Banderas

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

Anatole France

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Bobby Orr

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

Mark Morris

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

Arthur Ashe

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Norman Finkelstein

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

Hill Harper

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

Tony Blair

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

James Weldon Johnson

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

Bethany Mota

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!

Matt Mullenweg

Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.

Chance The Rapper

My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?

Frances O'Grady

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

Junior Seau

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

Cassandra Clare

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Ronnie Wood

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Niall Ferguson

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

Alan Watts

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Richard Bach

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Norma McCorvey

I don't hate them any more like I used to. I just don't like them very much." ()

Stephen Sondheim

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Garrett Hardin

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

Denis Leary

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

Jose Mujica

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

Charlotte Bronte

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Joyce Banda

I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Cindy Crawford

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Carl Lewis

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!