Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isla Fisher

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

Isabella Rossellini

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

Isabella Rossellini

The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a 'personality' story.

Isabella Rossellini

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'

Robert Palmer

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.

Robert Osborne

My age and my phone number are both unlisted.

Ronald Kessler

Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.

Ronald Kessler

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Ronald Kessler

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

Ronald Kessler

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Jim Pedrojetti

Mike was breaking (Willis) down with left hooks to the body. Mike was throwing some really sweet combinations.

Ed Roth

None of us have gone through life without breaking things.

Dennis Christopher

Everybody cheats, I just didn't know.

Lars Trier

If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.

Justin Rose

I feel like I'm hopefully really on the verge of breaking through here. It would make the last two years that I spent over here pointless to go back to Europe full time this year.

Chow Fat

For me, shooting films and breaking into Hollywood are just like gambling. For an actor, good scripts, appropriate roles and good film crews are not that easy to find. I am so lucky to have had so many chances.

Tobias Levkovich

From a technician's point of view, breaking through 1,300 was an important factor.

Jeff Hennion

From what we have seen, Steelers fans are breaking all the rules with support of the team.

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

Tammy Smith

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

Sgt. Maynard

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

Ramon Sanchez

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

Italo Calvino

I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Isabella Rossellini

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Rick Perlstein

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Robert Mankoff

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Jarod Tufts

We're not complacent, but we have an extreme sense of confidence in our status for the transition. We're fairly confident that there aren't going to be many problems.

Jamie Dixon

Levon was obviously very good tonight. It was a team effort. I like our 11 guys and I have confidence in all of them. I think you can see that and they all seem to step up.

Richard Grasso

Let us not forget the great tragedy that has befallen this nation, ... restoring the public confidence that this marketplace will be up and functioning.

Brandon Roy

Last year we had huge confidence because teams didn't know how quick we were or how fast we were going to play.

Susan McGrath

Last year we had a strong team, but we didn't have the experience or confidence to be able to comeback. Getting that year of experience really helped us get a win like the one today.

Chris Gaynor

Last year, we didn't know what to expect. We were a young group of guys. This year, we've got the confidence to get over that hurdle.

Carmelo Anthony

Last year's second-half stretch was incredible. Hopefully we can come together and do the same thing we did last year. I have confidence in me and my team to step it up.

Wade Wilson

Last year we lost games, and it really didn't seem like there was a lot of hope for getting better. This year there was a feeling that this is something we can overcome. The confidence is still there. We feel like we can be a real good offensive football team.

Alberto Fujimori

Many people, myself, had confidence in Montesinos because (he) succeeded very much with fighting terrorism and narcotics,

Michael Simmons

Low-income students can come out of here feeling diminished.

Al Groh

Losing stays with you a lot more than winning stays with you. Yes, there are positive feelings that come with winning. But you prefer not to live with that losing feeling that stays with you for a long time.

Nancy Peterson

Losing a pound isn't necessarily a reward. Being healthy and feeling good about yourself is the reward.

Michael Strahan

Last year we were a team, but I think maybe we were a little unsure, ... We had a new quarterback, a new coach, we had a lot of different things we needed to have answered. This year, I just don't have that feeling. Even though Eli is young, I don't have the same feeling as a team that we're unsure about ourselves.

Justin Williams

Momentum swings were huge in this game. Once we tied it 2-2, we were feeling pretty good and started to keep the momentum a little bit. But we just gave up too many chances.

Kim Clijsters

My injury's not gone. The pain is gone because of the tablets I'm taking. So that's a good sign that I can be out there and play without feeling the pain. But I know that once I get home there's going to be some work to do.

Deena Burnett

My feeling was that it was going to be Tom, and Tom's feeling was that it was going to be him. He just felt that whatever God's plan was for him, it had something to do with the White House and was going to impact a lot of people.

Rick Santorum

My feeling on the nominee is I don't know much about her,

Joseph Cohen

My feeling is there are some good opportunities left in the Nasdaq, ... But investors have to be careful.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Alan Trammel

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Dutch Proverb

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Anthony Smith

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Shelly Smith

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Charles Gargano

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Ross Baker

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Robert Fisk

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Albert Schweitzer

The greatest living person in the world is some individual who at this very moment has gone in love to help another.

Richard Hills

Lee (Robinson) has gone back to the United and done very well,

J. J. Johnson

Several firms that have gone public recently and others that have been public for some time have seen their shares rise considerably.

Yuri Thamrin

Second-hand information is not enough and this has gone on for too long.

Thomas Blanton

Secrecy, the secrecy system and the pseudo secrecy system in the United States have gone out of control.

Edward Luck

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

Gary Waters

McNamara would've helped them, but I don't know how much he would've helped them. I can't say because he was gone that we were better, because they played like a team.

Kim Clijsters

My injury's not gone. The pain is gone because of the tablets I'm taking.

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.

Deepak Chopra

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

John Williamson

He's been invisible when important policy issues have sprung up. They just seem to have missed opportunity after opportunity.

Adam Smith

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Adam Smith

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

E. L. Konigsburg

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Chuck Palahniuk

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Pico Iyer

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.

Bjork

It's invisible, what women do. It's not rewarded as much.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Ryan Holmes

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Ken Young

I was a little angry. We didn't talk for a while. But I'm older now. I realized that I was too sensitive.

Kim Weston

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

Sarah Allen

We're older and a lot of people thought we were crazy. A lot of people still think we're crazy. They don't live in our shoes.

Judy Gold

When I got a part in 'All American Girl,' in 1994, I remember thinking, 'Now I have a series, I'm not going to need to do standup,' but every night I'd go out afterward and get onstage somewhere.

Ricky Martin

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Tracy Letts

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.

Michael Ball

I was just proud to be onstage with her. It's just proper old-school theatrical heart.

David Bowie

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Idina Menzel

I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

Kim Fields

I really enjoy theater. Performing live onstage is helping me to grow as an actress.

Britney Spears

it is not the one I wore onstage during the 'Baby One More Time' performance.'

Phil Jackson

We need to try to regain some home-court advantage.

Russ Danielson

We want to regain the trust of our patients.

Lenny Walls

I will regain my 'A' game. I will keep going.

Pattie Boyd

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.

Johvonne Hernandez

I want to come back and regain my titles.

David Mobley

Seniors always find a way to win. There?s wisdom in experience. It showed tonight.

Chris Crutcher

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Chris Evert

... after being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

Dennis Hastert

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Dennis Hastert

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

Dennis Hastert

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

Edwina Currie

The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.

Ed Pastor

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

Ahmed Rashid

I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

Mike Mount

There is no stereotype for the typical motorcyclist anymore.

Anthony Becht

I think the stereotype with me is that I'm just a one-dimensional player, that I'm a big blocker,

Elizabeth Johnson

We?re challenging the stereotype of being a beggar.

Tim Lappano

He's that Washington stereotype tight end, that's what he's going to be.

Sherman Alexie

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Forest Whitaker

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Russell Peters

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

Taryn Manning

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

John Dingell

Let's look at the system. First, the characteristics they're talking about they say is a fingerprint. In fact, it's more like a tire print.

Dick Wolf

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Diane Sawyer

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

Dennis Quaid

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Eleanor Roosevelt

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

Edward Abbey

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

John Clifford

From talking to him, I think he wants to play receiver.

John Groff

From what we have been talking about, it's going to be really something.

Abraham Lincoln

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Courtney Love

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

Ethel Mumford

Life Insurance Motto - Robbing the widows early and orphan.

Imelda Marcos

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

George Herbert

Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]

Mark Twain

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

George R. R. Martin

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

Honore de Balzac

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Siri Hustvedt

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Joyce Banda

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Audrey Hepburn

My look is attainable. Women can look like

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.

Chris Evans

What does a woman want? More.

Tucker Max

Women always want the guy that other women want.

Tina Brown

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Democritus

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Denis Diderot

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

Deborra-Lee Furness

As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel good. We recognise that some people have bad energy and we know we don't want that in our lives. Instead, we choose to spend time with people who love us and treat us well and make us happy. There's no doubt that shows on your face.