Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Cecile Richards

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Carolyn Maloney

Where are the women? The women are here.

Charlie Hunnam

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

Barbara Walters

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Barbra Streisand

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Dianna Agron

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

Chinua Achebe

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

Diana Gabaldon

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Anthea Turner

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Peter Schiff

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Madchen Amick

I really loved Witches of Eastwick, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.