Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia Ozick

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ...

Cynthia Ozick

Old saws have no teeth.

Daria Werbowy

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

Cornel West

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

Clifford Stoll

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

Davina McCall

I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

Davy Rothbart

I've always given a lot of advice, whether I'm asked for it or not.

Davy Rothbart

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

David Petersen

You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon and not as pensive of mind as Kenzie. They rely on each other too much. Saxon knows he can afford to be reckless since Kenzie acts as his conscience. And Kenzie can linger in his thoughts and plans, because he knows Saxon can defend him. I tested Kenzie earlier. I wanted to see if he would be swayed by my advice. It took Saxon's coaxing to make up the greyfur's mind. Be compleete with in yourself young redfur...you will never disappoint. Even in solitude.

David Lloyd George

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

David Halberstam

Always stay in with the outs.

David Hare

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

Confucius

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

Confucius

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

Confucius

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Confucius

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

Dane Cook

What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

Dalton Trumbo

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one

Dallas Willard

God's address is at the end of your rope.

David Byrne

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

David Lee Roth

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.

David Gerrold

Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

David Eddings

Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

David Eddings

We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

Deion Sanders

When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?

Anthony Perkins

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Cicely Tyson

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.

Alfred Bester

This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Anthony Bourdain

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

Anthony Bourdain

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Andy Rooney

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

Andy Stanley

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.