Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Evans

Sometimes it can happen that you see everything in terms of music. It's like a fixation. You can't help it. I get that way every time I'm trying to work something out. But it's bad if you can't pull out of it. Nothing should be that dominating. If it is, it is perverted.

Seeing this and what I saw yesterday, there are no words to describe it. I didn't realize it was as bad as it was until yesterday when we were driving around.

Ruth and I knew we would come back to live here some day, ... When my eyes got too bad for me to drive in 1988, and my not being able to see made it harder to perform on a regular basis, we decided it was time to come home. I pulled in my horns and we moved up here because of my eye condition. I didn't exactly retire; I'm still a member of the Opry and still do an occasional concert now and then.

Rope baskets are a little bit scary. It's a safe operation as long as everything goes right. If you have bad weather, you have to depend on the crane operator and boat skipper - a lot of people are responsible for your safety.

Running on the rocks barefoot with his feet burned so bad was what hurt him the most.

said Tallon. ''If he has even 10 bad games out of 60 or whatever he plays, you're probably going to be in 50 games with a chance to win. We're going to be in most of the games we play.

Patty Murray

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Judd Apatow

No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving to say, that you're mad about but never express, sometimes come out, all at once. We all have these terrible moments. That's just part of being human.

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.

Muhammad Ali

That all you got, George?

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.

Nellie Bly

ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.

Nellie Bly

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

Nellie Bly

'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'

Nellie Bly

'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'

Nellie Bly

ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Never do an enemy a small injury.

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

Luke Pasqualino

I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.