Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Ora

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Bootsy Collins

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Anne Sullivan

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Katharine McPhee

I love my body when I'm in the best shape I can be in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

David Walliams

When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.

Moon Unit Zappa

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

Sloane Crosley

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

Elizabeth McGovern

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Charlie Hunnam

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

David Nicholls

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mary Quant

I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

Arjun Rampal

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Brian O'Driscoll

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

Molly Ringwald

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

Ben Mendelsohn

I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.

William Gibson

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

Carolyn Murphy

You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jose Carreras

I've always said that music is like literature.

Kimberley Nixon

I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

Patty Duke

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination

Kurt Loder

And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to.

Henry A. Kissinger

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Tullian Tchividjian

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Keeley Hawes

Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it.

Ronda Rousey

I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Tracey Ullman

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Shilpa Shetty

I have actually been sporty right from my childhood. I was quite chubby in the first eight years of my life. But then I began playing volleyball in school. That did it. I lost all my baby fat and became slim.

Liberty Ross

I'm terrible at sticking to any sort of diet. The more I think I can't eat something, the more I want to eat it. And I know this is the most annoying thing for a girl to say, but I'm just really lucky; I can eat pretty much what I want.

Howie Mandel

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Dick Wolf

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

Shane Filan

It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.

Chevy Chase

I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

Lao Tzu

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Reza Aslan

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

David Morrissey

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Manolo Blahnik

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

Tom Hardy

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Robert Morgan

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Bill Hicks

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Reggie Watts

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.