Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

Robert Rainy

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

William Butler Yeats

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence

The Jerusalem

Life in exile, abroad, in a foreign element ... a premonition of your own book-form fate, of being lost on the shelf among those with whom all you have in common is the first letter of your surname.

Tom Daschle

Let us be clear, ... All Americans deserve a tax cut. But surely, the wealthiest among us should not get it at the expense of working families. There's a better way.

Christopher Haiman

Lung cancer incidence was higher among African-Americans and Hawaiians.

Rick Beene

Luke had his best game of the season. To come out in a game as big as this and play the way he did shows what kind of competitor he is. He was a man among boys tonight.

David Ogilvy

Make sure you have a Vice President in charge of Revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Jackie Cooper

I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jonah Hill

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

Nicole Holofcener

I'm being photographed, worrying about my hair - and yet here I am, I've directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

Will Yun Lee

The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Brian Cox

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.

Patricia Richardson

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.

Rick Perlstein

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

Robert Menard

Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.

Stephen Evans

Freedom exists in the experience of the perceiver; it is undeniably unique and scuttled by need for confirmation from others.

Charles Nelson

Shamrock only exists on St. Patrick's Day. Every other day of the year, it's just young clover.

Andrei Kostin

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

William Shatner

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

Noam Chomsky

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

John Jamison

Mike is a guy who trusts his friends.

Ralph Macchio

My life is all the richer for having known him, ... I will miss his genuine friendship.

Lauren Thompson

My friends in Mankato pay $200 a month for large rooms and I pay $295 a month for a room that is made for elves. The way I see it is if we are paying more we should at least see a difference.

David Jacobson

My friends don't know what it is, ... Some have tried it, but that's about it.

Joan Collins

My husband and I started off as friends, which has been very important for our relationship,

Christiane Amanpour

I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.

Kristin Steele

She's one of the most phenomenal people out there. She's very true to herself and to her friends. She's just that down-home kid.

Vivian Stringer

She and I are personal friends, but as it relates to the game itself, she can see like I can see. She can tell what our strengths and weaknesses are just like I can with them, but I'm not necessarily worried about that. We just have to go out and play.

Proverb Proverbs

Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Sathya Baba

Life is the car, your heart is the key and God is the chauffeur.

Martin Freeman

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

Barry Bonds

Luckily, I'm still playing. Thank God I'm still out there.

Leo Veness

Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.

Stephen Baldwin

Luis Palau is the best-kept secret God ever had.

Corbin Bernsen

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Sathya Baba

Love God with all your heart,With all your soul

George Whitefield

Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

Alexandra Paul

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Barbara Upton

One of my niece's husband worked on an oil rig, and I imagine that is the first thing that will get running again.

Julie Jameson

None of us walked into it blindly. Our husbands sat us down and told us what to expect.

John Gay

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Marci Maynes

My first husband was uneducated and very poor. I can't get involved with another uneducated man.

Frances Chaney

My husband is a big joker and my son-in-law thought he had somehow dummied up a ticket.

Judith Bondus

My husband has worked here since 1983 though.

Hannah Prahl

My husband got a job in Marshall and we moved here.

Kathy Monaghan

My husband and I would love to see him do anything he wants to do.

Richard P. Feynman

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Karen Cason

Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...

French Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known

Jennifer Robinson

McGill is a university known around the world for a lot of things, mostly for the quality of our students and our professors and the successes of our research and teaching.

Jacquie Small

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn't know it.

Chris Crutcher

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

Tom Stoppard

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Plaxico Burress

I can't even get a read on him or how he's feeling. As long as I've known him this year, he's been the same, no matter what. What's so special about this game?

Eddie Palmieri

I can tell you that it's just a sad day, a sad day for the Latin music industry, ... Tito was known all over the world.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Bikram Choudhury

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

David Byrne

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Cynthia Miller

You know, because of the way I was raised, you have to stay strong. It's only material things.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Andre Bazin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

Michael Nesmith

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Make her laugh, make her laugh, make her laugh. After all, the strongest relationships are the ones in which you can laugh with your partner through anything.

Marc Cherry

Let's just say she has a very interesting relationship with her son.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Elbert Hubbard

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eileen Caddy

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Bill Clinton

I did not have sexual relationship with that woman!

Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

Deepak Chopra

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

Charles Spurgeon

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

Dick Van Dyke

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing ...

Dominic West

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

David Bowie

I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy.

David Bowie

I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

Dave Pelzer

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

David Neeleman

Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.