Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Carlos Mencia

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

Carlos Mencia

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Ghosn

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Carlos Ghosn

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Carlos Castaneda

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

Carl Bernstein

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

M.V. Govindan

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

Ann Powell

When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done,

Rusty Wallace

When I decided to retire, I decided I couldn't stand it if I went out a loser,

Kelly Preston

When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again.

Estella Warren

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.

Alfredo Palacio

The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets and green fields should flower dignity, hope, equality and happiness.

Tom Scholz

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.

Sharon Stone

Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had anything to worry about so I decided to go for it. I was very pleased with the results and it was also nice to surprise a few people.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I decided very early on that the way to make a difference in my life and in other people's lives was to give them services and products that are actually for the many and not for the few.

Bill Ayers

I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

Michael Colucci

We were delighted with the performance. It was fast and we were able to put a total of about 2,800 miles on it. Everything looks really good.

Jay Fulcher

We were delighted with the outcome for us.

Jerry Munro

We were delighted that they could accept. And it's going to be a tight squeeze for them, too.

Kapil Dev

We are all proud and delighted for what he has achieved. He has improved much more than what we thought he would. Nobody had earlier thought he would take 500 wickets, but he has proved all of us wrong.

Andreas Katsulas

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Ed Dunlop

She's run very well and, in a sense, we are delighted because there were little question marks after Dubai. I liked the way she accelerated. The story rolls on.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm!

Tessa Jowell

People were delighted with their digital television and did not want to go back to analogue.

Carlos Ghosn

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Tim Tebow

For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

George Thomas

The outlook for first quarter 2006 has been steadily improving and we are now seeing less than normal industry seasonality impact in our business.

Brian Eno

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

Carlos Ghosn

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Paul Patton

We have no interest in pursuing it at this time.

Rob Young

We have no idea if there is an interest. But we won't know unless we ask. And we are going to start doing that on Monday.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Douglas Chickering

We have renewed interest in bowling, so we are going to revisit it at our meeting and find out the level of interest.

John Hull

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

Gary Shteyngart

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.

Heikki Kovalainen

I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Ronnie Milsap

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Irwin Winkler

When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

Brian Barker

When James was out, we put a lot of time into bolstering his weaknesses.

Bill Hader

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Carl Bernstein

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

David Shuster

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

David Sedaris

My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

David Talbot

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

Elaine Sciolino

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The good news isn't that God is victorious. How can He not be victorious? The good news is we can be victorious, too.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Charles Dickens

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Shanley Caswell

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Luke Pasqualino

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Eva Mendes

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

Claire Forlani

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Mark Spragg

When I look at the film, unlike when you see it, I'll be thinking of the scenes that were cut,

Debra Winger

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Jeff Garlin

She makes every scene she's in better, ... I'm sorry if that's boring, but she's a rock. She's just that fantastic.

Ra'anan Gissin

We've shown what we can do with settlements.

Rick Taylor

We want them and I think we have shown you that.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not a one-trick pony. We've shown it all year that we're not a one-trick pony.

Alexander Johnson

We're better than that, and we've shown it.

Richie Sexson

We think we're a better team than we've shown this month.

Bobby Cox

We like him a lot. He's really shown well here.

Amitabh Bachchan

You have shown that one can sustain success.

Scott Hoffman

Had they not have shown up, it could have been tragic.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Meryl Streep

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Tequan Richmond

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

Jane Addams

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

I. Stone

We're here to stay and see this thing through.

Chan Ho Park

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Carole Bouquet

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

Carlos Boozer

Too strong for that Bron Bron.

Carlos Castaneda

Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Agnes Smedley

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

Agnes Varda

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Steve Lee

We put up some tremendous numbers, but we just couldn't get it done.

Steve Coppell

We had a tremendous year. It's been dreamlike in many ways.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Larry Coker

We need to find out about ourselves. We're going to get a tremendous test.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

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.