Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Benatar

Once I had kids, my whole attitude changed. I was like, "You make a spinal cord from scratch and we'll talk."

Pat Buchanan

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Jurgen Habermas

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

Joseph Brodsky

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

Lita Ford

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women

Leonardo da Vinci

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.

Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Paul Robeson

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.

Lev Grossman

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

LeRoy Neiman

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

Leon Panetta

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

Laurence Steinberg

Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends.

Neal A. Maxwell

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

Neal A. Maxwell

We can learn that at the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in! Those, for instance, who stretch themselves in service- though laced with limiting diseases-are often the healthiest among us! The Spirit can drive the flesh beyond where the body first agrees to go!

Muammar al-Gaddafi

If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

Maria Bamford

I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

Margot Asquith

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

Maria Bartiromo

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Mark Victor Hansen

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

Mark Hoppus

I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.

Marianne Faithfull

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

Marianne Faithfull

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Miyamoto Musashi

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

Miyamoto Musashi

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

Mireille Guiliano

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.