Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Diane Keaton

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

Dennis Weaver

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

William Shakespeare

Put money in thy purse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Charles Lamb

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Benjamin Franklin

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Benjamin Franklin

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Charles Churchill

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

Nia Vardalos

You're never too fat for a new purse.

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

Austin Perez

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

Carolyn Bivens

One of the great stories out of this is that the LPGA, by virtue of the number of stars we have, is not dependent on one person.

Mark Rowen

Basically, (GM) is dependent on the new truck launch and whether it's accepted,

Ron Goforth

I do not want this thing to become dependent on me. I want it to be self-sustaining. Really, for this to be a grass-roots effort, some people need to pick it up and run with it.

Walter McCormick

The promise of the next-generation Internet is dependent upon there being investment in next-generation networks. If you're going to expand these networks, how are you going to earn a return on that investment?" ()

Yotam Ottolenghi

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

Charles Koch

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Carlotta Harrell

We don't have to reinvent the wheel. The principal and teachers literally went door to door inviting parents to participate. They found most parents had no idea the school was so dependent on them.