Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Rania of Jordan

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

Daniel Boulud

I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

Elizabeth I

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Richard C. Armitage

I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't.

Nancy Kress

If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

Helena Christensen

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

Wallace Stevens

The point of vision and desire are the same.

Nicole Scherzinger

I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.

Rhys Ifans

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

Brad Thor

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

Suzi Quatro

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.

Cathy Freeman

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Cam Newton

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

Charley Pride

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Monica Lewinsky

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

John Kasich

Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.

Danny Bonaduce

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

Doug Larson

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

Cesar Romero

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.

John Sununu

The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

Ben Whishaw

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

Paul Broun

As your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington D.C.

Lance Henriksen

One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

David H. Murdock

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Sonia Sotomayor

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Nicholson Baker

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

Douglas Conant

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

Nobu Matsuhisa

In the morning and the end of every day, I thank that I'm alive.

Ma Jian

The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

Chuck Grassley

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Amy Jo Martin

Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.

Channing Tatum

It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.

Kathryn Lasky

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

Theodor Mommsen

When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes.

Nick Woodman

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Athol Fugard

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

Armstrong Williams

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Cameron Diaz

Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

John Wooden

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

Eddie Murphy

After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

Lauren London

I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!

Camille Claudel

You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.

Drew Goddard

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

Jean Paul

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Pam Grier

It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

Iggy Azalea

I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.

Ben Jonson

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Carol Moseley Braun

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.