Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evgeni Plushenko

I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

Evgeni Plushenko

My main competitor is myself.

Evgeni Plushenko

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.

Evgeni Plushenko

I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done.

Evgeni Plushenko

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

Ernest Hemingway

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

Erwin Rommel

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

Gabriel Iglesias

You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.

Frank Gehry

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Helen Keller

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Idris Elba

My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.

Honore de Balzac

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Naomi Wolf

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Genghis Khan

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

Sean Connery

Some age. Others mature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

Joan Crawford

Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.

Louis Sullivan

Form ever follows function.

Lilith Saintcrow

What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.

John Maynard Keynes

I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

John Barrymore

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Muhammad Ali

That all you got, George?

Mark Wigley

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Never do an enemy a small injury.

Oscar Niemeyer

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

Olivia Wilde

Friends, haters, it's Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome!

Olivia Wilde

In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

Olivia Wilde

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

Olivia Wilde

It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.