Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Alice Wonderland

Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

Thomas Powell

Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment.

Phil Davis

Last year we had restaurants out of food two days after the event. This year we've even heard of a group that is planning a White Squirrel wedding.

S. Hughes

Leave on time at least two days a week. If you never have any free evenings you'll grow resentful.

Gene Madden

Several days of nice, moderate rain is what we need to put out the flames.

Joe Girardi

Seventeen days in you can't keep making the same mistakes. You can't just work your butts off and throw it away because you want to do too much.

Burmese Proverb

Seven days is the length of a guest's life

Tom Marryott

Senior days are different. You never know what's going to happen because it's such an emotional day. It was good to see all three of them play well.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Douglas Brinkley

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

Dan Kaiser

We had to take two schools out of the Reagan area.

Douglas Brinkley

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

John Davis

No one is hurt, that's the important thing -- remember that.

Charles Phillips

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

Susan Carney

I can't remember when we've had so many three-setters. They just don't give up. They play right to the end.

John Mendel

I can't remember when it wasn't really a rough year.

Phill Laursen

I can't remember really how this started. It just happened.

Jeff Greene

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Bill Hancock

From what I remember about Des Moines and its hotels, ... (The metro) will do fine.

Dan Rice

I don't remember voting. What's the difference? It passed.

J. Taylor

I don't remember things about that play, to be honest, ... I think I was in a zone or something.

Deng Xiaoping

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

Eldridge Cleaver

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

Abraham Lincoln

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Walter Benjamin

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

Charlie Chaplin

I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

Charles Dudley Warner

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Audre Lorde

Revolution is not a one time event.

Bill Ayers

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

Bill Ayers

Education is the motor-force of revolution.