Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Istook

I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

David Letterman

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Ed Markey

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers

John Thune

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

Jon Voight

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

Rachel Cusk

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

Robert Englund

I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true.

Padgett Powell

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Sophocles

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

Tucker Max

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

Ruben Studdard

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

Deborah Eisenberg

I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.

Barbara Corcoran

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

Ben Bernanke

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

Kurt Angle

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

Carroll O'Connor

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Kamala Harris

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

Casey Stengel

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

Zubin Mehta

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

Natalie du Toit

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

Kathryn Minshew

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

Nadine Velazquez

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

Publilius Syrus

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Gary Numan

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

Livy

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

Mika

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

David Cross

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

Virgil

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Ike Barinholtz

I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.

Laura Bell Bundy

I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Mary Roach

Pet foods come in a variety of flavors because that's what humans like, and we assume our pets like what we like. We're wrong.

Leo Kottke

There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

Judd Nelson

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

Ashley Greene

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Michelle Branch

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

Kristin Cavallari

I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

Quentin Blake

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

Al Jarreau

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

Lisa Guerrero

You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.

Benedict Cumberbatch

If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

Walter Lang

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Katie Couric

But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

Reba McEntire

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

Karen Finerman

I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.

Manuel Puig

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Camille Paglia

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Erin McKean

Language is a nice way to remember things.