Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Mills

If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

Taylor Schilling

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Edwards

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Aubrey Plaza

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

Robert Klein

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Robert Harris

I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

Corbin Bernsen

I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

Tim Conway

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.

Kiesza

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

Joseph Prince

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

Kim Edwards

There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Baruch Spinoza

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Flavor Flav

Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

Dianna Agron

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

Diana Ross

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

Lupita Nyong'o

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

Julian Lennon

I am not John Lennon; I never will be!

Charles Eastman

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Sigourney Weaver

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Charles Baudelaire

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Eartha Kitt

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Arthur Miller

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Desiderius Erasmus

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Burt Rutan

I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

Alexandra Paul

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.

David Korten

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

Doug Harvey

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Robert Walpole

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

Billy Sherwood

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

James Sinegal

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

Curtis Jackson

Eating well was something I learned as I started to be successful and had to travel and perform concerts, which are an intense cardio workout.

Kim Weston

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Robert Wilson

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.

Kevin Mitnick

I characterize myself as a retired hacker. I'm applying what I know to improve security at companies.

Tony Scott

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

Hanya Yanagihara

Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Lee Kuan Yew

Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

Eric Bristow

When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.

Skeet Ulrich

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

Aziz Ansari

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

Billie Jean King

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

Will Smith

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

Ayn Rand

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Gary Sinise

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Bruce Boxleitner

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.