Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Valenti

We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.

Michel Onfray

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Morgan Wootten

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

Cameron Crowe

The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place,

David Lord

We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make.

Naveen Andrews

We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

Margaret Chan

The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors.

Tim Chapman

We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this.

Charles Dickens

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Charles Dickens

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

Charles Soule

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Charles Stross

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Charles Spurgeon

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Alan Rickman

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Alan Moore

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

Alan Bradley

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

Alain Prost

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

Steve Foley

We started slow, and they caught us off-guard a lot. It was all about us turning it up and not letting them stick around because we could end up on the wrong end.

Arturo Dubois

We are a defensive team, but I guess at one point we got caught up trying to score with them.

Deon Butler

Where I've come from, I've heard trash talking before. Once we settled down, once we caught a couple passes, you kind of tune that out.

Gilbert Arenas

When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. And this was just one of those nights when he caught fire.

Heath Schroyer

We're not going to sign a post guy just because he's a post guy, ... Too many times, guys get caught up in, 'I have to have this.' You have to recruit players.

Denzel Washington

Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch....

Benjamin Spock

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Tim Duncan

When he gets into a rhythm like that where he starts going, it's like you want to sit there and watch him play. You get caught up in what he does and that's probably the worst thing that we can do is just sit there and watch him play, but you get mesmerized by what he's doing.

Josh Fox

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Rob Walton

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Navtej Sarna

We've also decided to permit relief material being sent by private organizations and international (charities) to Pakistan.

Glenn Matthews

We spoke and decided we didn't need to. We just want to let things settle down.

Luis von Ahn

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Nolan Gerard Funk

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Christopher Hill

Whether we have a draft that everyone agrees on, or whether it's decided that there should be a recess of some kind, we don't know yet,

Katie Cook

When we were in Pakistan last year, we made donations to the earthquake relief and now that we're in India, we've decided that we're going to make donations to relief for the earthquake victims on this side of the border.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.

Darren Shan

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

Darren Shan

No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.

David Suzuki

If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

David Nabarro

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.

Cary Grant

Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

Edith Sitwell

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

David Brainerd

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Audre Lorde

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

Charles Dickens

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Sean Ross

When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion.

Kurt Vonnegut

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Beyonce Knowles

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Audrey Hepburn

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Cheryl Strayed

He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Elliott McCullough

We're exploring options. We want to make this as painless as possible." ()

Jill Lajdziak

We're exploring different alternatives. We're not ready to talk about that today.

Chuck D.

We're exploring all sorts of options for waste. There's so much of it.

Tony Glover

Let's just say that he's exploring his options for the future.

Ellen Stofan

We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.

Brian Greene

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Gillian Cross

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

Gillian Cross

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Leon Bridges

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Alan Bradley

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Lon Carter

West is a heck of a club. They've got very good flat track speed.

Elton Brand

We still need to prove that we're still a top-notch organization. We're going towards that road. I don't have PlayStation in my locker, flat screens or DVD's in my locker.

Elton Brand

We still need to prove that we're still a top-notch organization, ... We're going towards that road. I don't have PlayStation in my locker, flat screens or DVD's in my locker.

Lydia Leonard

Broadway is the actor's Mt. Everest - but with more flattering frocks.

Charles Lederer

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David McCullough

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

Catherine Bell

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.

Mehmet Okur

We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight.

Michael Lynch

We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Bruce Marthaller

The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one.

Marcia Gay Harden

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

Hayley Orrantia

I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.

Ron Reichle

We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing.

Lauren Pittman

We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning.

John Franceschi

We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up.

Lisanne Falk

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

Dave Hohenthal

We're midway through the season now and I think the girls are starting to progress. We've got a lot more work to do, but I think that we're going in the right direction.

Mike Turnan

We're going to throw a number of girls on her. You have to post up on the elbow, not down on the block. If we can minimize her and their 3-point shooters, we have shot.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

Akira Kurosawa

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Brian Nicola

We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.

Katie Featherston

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Ariel Pink

Ariel Pink never really existed because he was always Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, but then people started doing interviews with Ariel Pink as if Ariel Pink existed.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Vince Suriano

We played hard, but we were haunted by the big play.

Bruce Udvari

Serves haunted us. You give up 10 points to any team and that's not good. I have to give the kids credit. They stuck in there.

Ron Rash

I've always been haunted that he might have been.

Bret Ellis

The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psycho haunts me and it will be on my gravestone. That's why it is such an important part of Lunar Park .

Gary Ross

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

Sue Smith

It's looking less and less haunted all the time,

Charlie Munger

We have a history when things are really horrible of wading in when no one else will.

Tim Read

What a horrible way to go. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I'm a horrible romantic!

Elle King

I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?

Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Danielle Taylor

She has horrible rages over nothing. She needs help. She needs to talk to somebody.

Ken Tutt

We didn't want to go through what we went through last year. It was a horrible feeling. I would say that has been in the back of my mind this whole season. Every time I went in the gym, I just thought about that loss.

Laurence Yep

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

Richie Adubato

This would have been a horrible momentum stopper, ... Horrible. We talked about that before the game. They are struggling but they have a lot of pride and they aren't just going to lie down for anyone.

Alan Hovhaness

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

David Kim

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

David Kim

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

Camille Paglia

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

Jeff Neubauer

We are a team looking for our identity right now.

Bill Johnson

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Benicio Del Toro

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Glenn Miller

We want the image to be recognizable, that's our goal.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Nicolas Maduro

The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination.

Natalie Massenet

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

David Johnson

She needs to overcome the negative image planted in everyone's mind during the 2000 election.

Kara Bunte

The outpouring of support has been amazing. People are now starting to see the images on TV and want to help.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Desiree Rogers

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

Liam Neeson

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

Edward Gibbon

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Carol Vorderman

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Lutfi Haziri

We want to resolve the status as soon as possible. Independence is coming.

Charles Evers

I'm for economic independence.

Benjamin Franklin

The States acceded to the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

J. Taylor

Man has proved to be a model sponsor and in particular has respected the independence and integrity of the prize.

Brian Tracy

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

Bryan Adams

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Bill Nighy

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

Mark Nation

When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.

Lyle Thomas

We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.

Kathy Miller

We're not anticipating problems, other than that we're getting them later than we expected.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Umberto Eco

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

Ernst Toller

Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.

Charles Dickens

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

Charles Caleb Colton

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

Jerry Clements

We respond to lots of things; that's why it's interesting. You're not doing the same thing every day.

Christine Walsh

Usually, it's complicated enough just doing a role. But when it's your senior project, there's lots, lots more involved.

Michael Lindell

There are lots of ways for levees to fail. Overtopping is just one of them,

Tom Underwood

There are lots of underlying problems in the whole system.

Jim Silver

There are lots of things that need to be done to revive Barbie.

Steven Vanderburg

There are lots of scattered showers over the ocean.

Kate Winslet

With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

David Hoffman

The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

Elizabeth Moon

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I literally married him.

Bipasha Basu

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Nia Peeples

When I was younger, before I was married and had children, I really was nit-picky, a perfectionist. I was very much into different people's approval. I had too much time on my hands, I think.

Bar Refaeli

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.

Ariel Gore

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stross

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

Akshay Kumar

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Frank Stronach

We want to show the world that no matter where you're born, no matter how poor you are, that you can succeed in life.

Chris Colfer

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

Chris Bosh

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

Darren Shan

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

David Mitchell

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Dave Barry

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

Lorraine Toussaint

I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.

Lorraine Toussaint

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.

George Thorogood

The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece.

Earl Butz

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

Karl Dorrell

Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.

Cheryl Strayed

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

Jim Gaylor

Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.

Chip Cook

We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Dave Barry

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.

Caitlin Moran

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Scott Carpenter

We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.

Joe Johnson

We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.

Hans Fischer

Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

Aidan Quinn

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Margaret Jones

It's inoperable. She will be paralyzed the rest of her life. And why? Couldn't they have shot out her tires?

Bill Johnson

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

JoAnn Carrin

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

John Drinkwater

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.

Annie Lennox

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Ai Weiwei

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.