Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything.

Robert Mankoff

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

Robert Klein

There are certain families who absolutely incorporate their nanny as part of the family, and there are other people, and there are codes for this, when they call in, they say, 'I am really not looking for a friend.' It is clear they will not be members of the family.

Marcy Kaptur

We have to get rid of the constant fundraising that happens inside the Congress. Before, political parties used to raise money; now, individual members are raising money through the DCCC and the RCCC. It is absolutely corrupt.

Freddie Shepherd

Let's be absolutely clear about this, we have made no approach to anyone at this moment in time.

Paul Dergarabedian

Lucas is in a unique position himself to create these rules and enforce them. He paid for the entire film himself, and he and Fox are just trying to maintain absolute control over the film.

Deborah White

Maintenance seems to be extremely high and there are spec changes in the United States. It's not that there are absolute shortages of products, but there is a concern about how much there is going to be.

Larry Beasley

Make sure you are absolutely clear about what kind of place you want. Otherwise, the consumer won't come, and it won't work.

Paul Hense

Make sure the bank gives you an absolute commitment.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

John Fletcher

Man is his own star; and the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man/ Commands all light, all influence, all fate./Nothing to him falls early, or too late./Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,/ Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

King Abdullah

Madness and evil. It is the work of the devil, ... Such acts cannot be perpetrated by any individual who has a sense of decency or humanity or justice or faith.

Susan Hill

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Nicole Hastings

Love is not the big acts of confirmation we make, but the continuous little tasks we do for someone else. True love is where you don't have to be reminded of the promises or commitments you make to a person, but where loving them becomes a piece of you.

Judy Gold

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Bill Stokes

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

Kate Winslet

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

Elizardo Sanchez

Never in the history of Cuba has there been these kinds of meetings between foreigners and representatives of the opposition.

Danny Pino

Growing up seeing Desi, I thought there were Cubans all over Hollywood. I understood that dialogue, everything he said. It wasn't weird to me because that's the way my dad talked.

Chris Neil

From what we've seen and heard here, the latest trend in migrant smuggling from Cuba is the go-fast boat. For those that go the route of migrant smuggling, they leave themselves at the mercy of smugglers who don't have an interest in their safety. They are interested in the cash.

Ted Cruz

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

Maria Rodriguez

If they're going to read something, let it be the truth, not growing up thinking that the kids in Cuba are living happy lives and that they're free and that they have all the rights that all the other kids in the world have, which they don't.

Fidel Castro

I do not think that he is a warmonger, ... He is the only one who has dared say that Cuba has done something good.

Andy Garcia

I could talk about him all day. He's the Mozart of Cuban music,

Louie Gohmert

Most people give Kennedy a passing grade, a good grade on the Cuban Missile Crisis handling, but what they don't realize, if he had had strength, if he had showed strength before, there would never have been a Cuban Missile Crisis.

Arthur L. Herman

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Keith Hennig

Leader No. 1 is Courtney. In second, you have Lindsey. She gets fired up in games. She expresses herself and her teammates respond.

Ariel Sharon

shares in the grief of the U.S. administration and expresses its condolences to the American people.

Philip Hilder

Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Grace Speare

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Jeff Buckley

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

George Pataki

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Trent Duffy

The United States expresses our sincere condolences to the people of the Philippines for the loss of the life and the suffering of other victims, family members and loved ones. We hope and pray that ongoing search and rescue operations will help save as many lives as possible.

Erica Jong

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

Larry Mize

Obviously, it's an innocent mistake, and now they can rectify it. I think that's good.

Anna Faris

She's still the same old simple Cindy. She's just as innocent and naive as ever, just trying to save the world again.

Michael Paranzino

Since 1999 we've had 100,000 innocent people murdered in America. But nobody is planning on commemorating all those people killed.

Rick Watson

We're kind of in the position that everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

Shah Zaman

We are innocent but do not know as to why were we targeted.

Steven Cohen

We don't have little Miss Innocent who was sprayed for no reason at all.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

H. Hunt

Sean: Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

Peter Cardillo

Obviously, we are not going to see some substantial gains, but I think we will be able to retrace some of these losses by the end of the week.

Mark Courtney

Obviously, this is a disappointing loss for us,

Ludwig von Mises

Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.

Kevin Stallings

We had a very disappointing loss (to South Carolina) and it will be very interesting to see how our team handles it. In this league, you don't have time to mourn a loss.

Chris Evert

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

Chris Evert

Losses are always a relief. They take a burden off me, make me feel more normal. If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. If I lose I go back to the dressing room and I'm no better nor worse than anyone else. A loss gets me eager again.

Charles Spurgeon

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Charles Peguy

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.

Albert Schweitzer

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

Laura Linney

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

David Brainerd

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

Audre Lorde

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection.

Beth Moore

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

Chazz Palminteri

Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

Carol Leifer

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Aya Cash

Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected.

Britney Spears

Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

Ashton Kutcher

The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

Basil Hume

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Deepak Chopra

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Dionne Warwick

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

William Shakespeare

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

Maurice Maeterlinck

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

A. N. Wilson

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

A. Scott Berg

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

Charlie Chaplin

What a sad business is being funny!

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Daunte Culpepper

I'd like to think I'd have made it wherever I went in the draft.

Travis Parker

Wherever he's at, we just got to find him.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Tenzin Gyatso

There is an old Tibetan saying: wherever you feel at home, you are at home. If your surroundings are pleasant, you are at home.

Bill Walker

Wherever she was needed, Dee was there to help.

Tyler Ebell

Wherever our game's going to be played, we have to go out there and play. And it's going to be on ESPN, so that's going to be nice.

Jeanette Winterson

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

Zachary Quinto

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.