Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Catherine Bell

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

Beyonce Knowles

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

Barry Bostwick

I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.

Audre Lorde

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Dee Wallace

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

Chiaki Kuriyama

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Charles Caleb Colton

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

Charles Simmons

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

Dave Barry

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.

Dave Barry

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

Dave Barry

I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.

Dave Barry

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.

Caroline Dhavernas

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

Catherine the Great

Your wits make others witty.

Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Carolina Herrera

I can get ready in 10 minutes.

Betty White

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Dennis Miller

Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Funny women are honest women.

Elizabeth Olsen

Not since I was 10, trying to get Nick Vossler's attention in PE. 'Red Rover, Red Rover, send Nicholas right over!'

Alan Kay

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

Charles Lamb

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Diane von Furstenberg

Generosity is the best investment.