Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Bamford

I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.

Natsuo Kirino

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

Terry Lewis

We have information we would be glad to share with them. They can remain anonymous if all they want to do is talk. If they want to get counseling, they identify themselves, but it remains confidential.

Colum McCann

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

Penelope Cruz

I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.

Wil S. Hylton

Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.

Trent Reznor

I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

Estella Olguin

Mothers don't have to face prosecution, they will remain anonymous and cops will not look for them.

Katori Hall

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.

Ellar Coltrane

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

Bryan Cogman

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.

Shirley Manson

I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact.

Lord Byron

Time, the avenger! unto thee I lift / My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.

Suzanne Somers

Toxicity causes nutritional deprivation - and your body then craves more and more food, trying to get what it needs.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

Chris Jordan

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Casey Stengel

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Aidan Quinn

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Edgar Degas

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Elizabeth Kostova

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Gil Brandt

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

David Stern

What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Brian O'Driscoll

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

Samuel P. Huntington

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

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.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wendy E. Long

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Capt. Boney

We're just going to have to find the right person out there with the right information. They can remain anonymous.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Noah Hawley

I remain a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Ian Shepherdson

The only soft spots in the survey remain inventories and employment, but they will recover.

Max de Pree

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.