Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Ehren Kruger

I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies.

Bill Richardson

We're here to try to find ways to, perhaps, encourage utilities to switch to natural gas so that we're not so dependent on home heating oil in this region,

John Lott

Many people found for the first time what it is like to totally dependent on themselves for protection. People put up signs that said 'Shotguns Inside' and that kept the gangs and violence away.

Joel Sawyer

We're going to have to go to some kind of Plan B. The funding we have for this is totally dependent on the federal government.

Frank D'Amelio

Returning to profitability is not dependent on significant revenue growth,

Carolyn Bivens

One of the great stories out of this is that the LPGA, by virtue of the number of stars we have, is not dependent on one person.

Mark Rowen

Basically, (GM) is dependent on the new truck launch and whether it's accepted,

Austin Perez

If anything has changed, it's that Americans are now even more reliant on U.S. farmers and ranchers for their food security, and farmers and ranchers are even more dependent on hired labor.

Christine McVie

I was happily thinking I was retired. That is why I left Fleetwood Mac.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

Paul Dick

We're trying to think through all the ramifications of what it would take to deploy a fleet of these.

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

Paul Kantner

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

Caroline Corr

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Willie Walsh

We're in the fortunate position that Rod Eddington left the fleet in good shape. It's unlikely we will do anything in the short-term.

Mary Ellen Mark

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Kate Moser

While the developments on the fleet are positive, we still have some important work to do on our restructuring.

Carol Leifer

Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Aaron Sorkin

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

Alan Titchmarsh

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Sherri Shepherd

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Ricky Gervais

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

Ricky Gervais

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

Susan B. Anthony

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.

Alan Abramowitz

The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,

Tom Bissell

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Ed Koch

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.

Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without

Ashley Smith

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Brian Urlacher

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Lloyd Edgecombe

The planes were very old. I think the plane was overworked.

Kiefer Sutherland

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

Lyndon Johnson

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

Kelly Holmes

Without planes I wouldn't be able to do what I do.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Claudio Ranieri

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Cillian Murphy

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

Amanda Lindhout

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Howard Dean

no safer today than the day the planes struck the World Trade Center.

Carre Otis

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

Carol P. Christ

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Carol Shields

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

C. S. Lewis

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

C. S. Lewis

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

C. S. Lewis

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

C. S. Lewis

Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house.

Agnes Varda

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.