Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

Mike White

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

Marsha Blackburn

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Deyon Pitter

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

P. J. O'Rourke

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

Jeremy Paxton

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Lindsey Graham

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

Rocco Landesman

one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.

Patrick McGowan

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Karl Inderfurth

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Warren Haynes

Making that record was one of the greatest musical moments in my life,

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Mary Wittenberg

Monday is the start of two races. One of the races will be over in 2? hours. The other race to be the world's greatest marathoner won't be over for 18 months.

Justin Gatlin

Maurice is one of the greatest competitors in the world. However this is a new era, the young guys are coming.

Gerald Curtis

One of his greatest opportunities now is to push agricultural reform,

Sally Schneider

One of my greatest joys is when someone like your wife takes one idea or one piece of a recipe and does it her way. That's what I'm encouraging.

George Granville

Of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, and love in vain.

Mike Perez

One through six, they really hate to lose. They all are very competitive. They may not be the greatest practice players, but in matches, I know they are going to get it done.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Johann Koss

I was surrounded by many heroes today. Some would say they are athletes. I would say they are humanitarians, too.

Lois Frankel

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

David Blankenhorn

We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best.

Lee Bermejo

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Jarret Stoll

Heroes are made every day in the playoffs. Winnie is a new hero for us today.

Felix Rodriguez

It hurts. It hurts whenever one of our heroes comes home, but not alive. This is the first one (soldier) from the Raymondville area.

John Scalzi

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

Kim Gandy

She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Paul Simon

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told.

Kate DiCamillo

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

Busch Series

Man, I had no idea what to expect.

Rashad Bobino

Man, I can see why they're No. 1 in the nation.

Mario Bailey

Man, he's a senior. He's worked hard, and this is for him.

M.I.A.

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

Rae Rosen

Manhattan is unique; the rest of the region is more like the nation.

Toba Beta

Man has to postulate weirdness, before reaching the new science.

William Burroughs

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Pat Connors

Man has a very poor track record when it comes to nature.

Barry Alvarez

Man did he play. I was really proud of him. . . . I really thought he played exceptional for a young kid.

Gracie Gold

Now that I have an Olympic medal in my room, it makes me hungry for another and a different color one.

Simon Clegg

The problem is you can't predict where that medal will come from. You have to make that investment.

Donna Thompson

The quality of the wines is excellent, and many individuals have won medals for the wines produced from kits.

Magdalena Neuner

I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

Kirsty Balfour

To get a medal in a world record race is just fantastic.

Kim Yuna

I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

Michaela Dorfmeister

Today, I won the first medal for Austria. This time we are favorites.

Svetlana Zhurova

He is now with my sister and I have been away for too long. So this medal is for him. For my little boy.

Daron Rahlves

I think we should've been able to medal in every event. What Ted did was awesome. He pretty much saved our butts.

Tina Brown

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

Barbara Ward

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,

Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Kate Thompson

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Dean Thomas

Neil has had a scan and we are just awaiting the results but he could be out for quite a while.

Peter Lawwell

Neil has apologised and we know that his reaction was wrong.

Tamora Pierce

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Hector Elizondo

I was working for Neil Simon on Broadway.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

Luis Federico Leloir

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

Kenneth Starr

He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Doris Lessing

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

P. J. O'Rourke

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

Tim Hunt

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Shuji Nakamura

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

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

Jeremy Bloom

One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily.

Chris Crutcher

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.

Chris Evert

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Chris Evert

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Chris Evert

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Chris Cornell

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

Dick Vitale

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it.

Diane Kruger

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

Chris Benz

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

Gary Bettman

OLN is anticipating, as are we, subscriber growth.

John King

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

Jeffery Smith

I tell him, 'Do it right. Do it light. Don't subscribe to Creatine,'

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This...

Dennis Prager

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Franz

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dee Dee Myers

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Kym Whitley

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.