Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

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.

Neil Cavuto

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

Kristen Wiig

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

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.

Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Kevin McCloud

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Kenny G

I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Kelly Cutrone

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Margaret Cho

To be a feminist is to be alive

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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

Lea Michele

If anything’s going on in our lives, we have each other. One time, I was having a bad day, and I called Chris Colfer. He came over with a pint of ice cream and Madea Goes to Jail, and it was, like, the best night of my life.

Governor Sanford would rather blame the Department of Labor for passing out bad numbers than work to create jobs in South Carolina.

Wolf Blitzer

Government workers get a bad rap. It's important to recognize them and what they do.

Ronald Reagan

Government is bad when it takes more than 30 percent of a taxpayer's income in taxes. Proudhon was wrong when he said property is theft; it's our federal budget that is institutionalized theft.

Bronson Arroyo

Got bases loaded, Dmitri Young hit a fastball that made it 6-4. Everything was pretty much downhill from there, man. They hit some good pitches, I threw some bad pitches. Bad game overall. Period.

For the last 35 years, it was mostly bad memories.

George Gissing

For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Sofia Vergara

For the Latin market it's very common because that is who we are, we are very passionate people we like sexy type. I've been working for the Latin market eight years and I'm Latin so it's part of work. I don't see it as a bad thing. I don't over do it, it's not pornographic sexiness but we do like our sexy stuff, its how we're brought up I guess.

For the last two days and the next few days, what's driving the market is the lack of bad news. This rebound could last two or three weeks.

For the most part people were nice and cordial. We only had one guy that was adamant to stay and when he realized we were not the bad guys he was OK,

Phil Gordon

For the most part, I think players should take life with a grain of salt and focus a little more on the opportunities at hand. I take bad beats pretty easily because I've seen far worse beats in Third-World countries.

For one, we were putting (our defensive) guys in bad field position. And another thing, we weren't giving them any breaks. Those guys need to be able to go on the sidelines, catch their breath and regroup. When the offense is going three-and-out, it's like (the defense) has hardly been off the field.

For one inning, it was a bad exhibition of softball.

For the parade, every veteran will receive a grand marshal badge and be in the parade.

Jon Miller

For the baseball fans, it's like they're having an expansion. It's 1993 all over again. I feel bad for the market. It's become a laughingstock again.

Orlando Cabrera

For sure, they don't think they're going to win it all this year. There's no way they can think they're going to win everything. When you think about it, this team the last two years didn't even go to the World Series. ... For those guys, not to even go, that's a bad year. A very bad year.

For the first time in a major European country, the extreme right is close to 20 percent. It's happened in medium-sized countries like Austria, but not in one of the big three. It's in a way a crisis of democracy. It's really bad news, not only for France, but for Europe and democracy in Europe.

For the first time all year it cost us in this ballgame. Bad habits tend to pop up when the pressure's on. Overall, we're not good shooters, and that's why we have to be a good defensive team.