Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stella Young

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.

Michael Shermer

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Sandra Tsing Loh

In my case, when it arrived at 49, perimenopause was terrifying and like nothing I had ever before physically experienced.

Charles Barkley

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.

Charles de Secondat

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Christine Teigen

People are still under the misguided impression that models don't eat. Not sure about the other girls, but I do!

Prince William

I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.

Joaquin Phoenix

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

Michael Behe

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

K'naan

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

Martin Jacques

The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored.

Adrian McKinty

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

Kara Walker

I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Elizabeth Hurley

I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.

Christopher Eccleston

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Mike Nichols

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Kirk Cameron

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

Kristin Gore

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Kris Carr

People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it's my first, and I can't wait for the next one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Terence Stamp

With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

Barry Commoner

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

Ani Difranco

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Benazir Bhutto

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Adam Clarke

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Blake Mycoskie

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Gary Wolf

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

Charles Kuralt

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Curtis Joseph

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Bill Wyman

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Susan Estrich

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

Andre Agassi

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

Thabo Mbeki

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

Ariel Pink

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Chanakya

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Terry Crews

I told everyone I would never be an actor. People used to tell me, 'Hey, you got a good look. You should try.' And I was like, 'Nah. That's not me.' And then, the moment I tried it, I found I loved it more than anything in the world, and that taught me a lesson. That is, just go for it.

Neil Innes

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

T. Boone Pickens

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

Cheryl James

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

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.