Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Sternberg

When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs.

James Lipton

I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.

Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

James Lipton

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

Michael Pollan

When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.

Dennis Banks

When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.

Daniel Greenberg

I would deliver lectures that got standing ovations, but later, in the tests and essays, it was clear to me that the students just didn't get it.

Seth Lloyd

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Paul Farmer

Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.

Rick Perlstein

Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.

Larry Lindsey

Majority Leader Daschle misspoke this morning when he said the Bush administration would dip into Social Security and Medicare funds. The truth, in fact, is that Social Security dollars will be used only for Social Security and Medicare dollars will be used only for Medicare. The only reason for any decline in revenue is due to an economic slowdown that began last September.

Wally Snyder

Life began to really mean something to those kids.

Bill Bradley

Look we have taken action, but you know racial profiling practically began in New Jersey, Senator Bradley.

Gene Nudo

Let's face it, it was a struggle. When we lost our first three games, we began to wonder if we were going to win. I believe we've turned the corner.

Hiroko Koyama

Many of these were the first pieces my mother began collecting. One of the most precious is an 11th-century glazed black tea bowl with rainbow colored spots.

Peter Cardillo

Many retail investors were in panic mode, however many of them slowly began to come back to the marketplace as the cloud of uncertainty began to lift.

Jim Turner

Many winter visitors began coming here because of the train.

Yasser Arafat

So here we extend our hand to you in reconciliation, and we extend the olive branch to resume the path that we began in Madrid and Oslo,

Benjamin Franklin

Let the Letter stay for the Post, and not the Post for the Letter

Greg Strobel

Letters is antsy, but he's ready. He's been off quite a while and can't wait to mix it up with someone. He's a little nervous, too. It's been six weeks since a 'live' bout, so that's quite a mid-season break.

Rick Moody

My letters to Pat are apologies. I was the oldest. I should have been there for him.

Jimmy Kimmel

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

Elbert Hubbard

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Sam Thompson

I can tell you the letter was not received.

David Nicholls

This isn't a letter, it's a gift.

David Friedman

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Martin Milner

I got letters from policemen thanking me for Adam-12.

Mike Eggl

Obviously, we feel pretty passionate about this issue.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

David Nail

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

Mark Cuban

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Bridgit Mendler

I'm really passionate about music.

Bruce Hornsby

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Moira Kelly

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

Vonda Shepard

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Willie Aames

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Bruce Weber

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

David R. Ellis

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Albert Schweitzer

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

Richard King

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

Chris Crutcher

So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

Charles Spurgeon

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Charles Spurgeon

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Charles Phillips

Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter.

Diane Paulus

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Tancredo Neves

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Tom Lehrer

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Sam Worthington

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

Sesil Karatantcheva

I am shocked. All this is some interpretation of the French, with whom I have never got along.

Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Ernie Allen

The person with whom they may be interacting may not be who they say they are.

Azzedine Alaia

I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'

Jane Byrne

I have three sisters, all of whom lead very normal lives.

Houssaye Houssaye

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Josh McDermitt

One person I haven't worked with yet, who I find hilarious, is Chad Coleman.

Stephanie Herseth

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Ryan Smyth

I got lucky, I guess. It worked out.

Sally Kellerman

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

Jeremy Corbyn

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.