Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Scott Weiland

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

Dirk Benedict

I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

William Lamb Melbourne

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

Robert Brown

Shakespeare was with us, Milton was for us/ Burns, Shelley, were with us, - they watch from their graves.

A. E. Housman

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Jamie Spencer

Every time we'd get it to three-or-four, Milton always had an answer. Tony played well. He just made the shots.

Robert Solow

Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

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.

Brooke Shields

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Lauren Graham

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

Peter Capaldi

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Claire Tomalin

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

Clark Gregg

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

David Hewson

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Joseph Bologna

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

David Miliband

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

Howard Wolfson

If Mr. Spencer wants to know why Republicans keep trying to find alternatives to him, he should look in the mirror.