Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amin Maalouf

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

Amitabh Bachchan

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Amiri Baraka

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Amish Tripathi

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

Amish Tripathi

I don't believe in symbolic gods.I believe that god exists all around us.In the flow of the river,in the rustle of the trees,in the whisper of the winds. He speaks to us all the time.all we need to do is listen.

Alphonso Jackson

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

Allison Pearson

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Anthony Anderson

Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Anson Mount

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

Anson Mount

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

Anson Mount

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

Anthony Burgess

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Anthony Burgess

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Anthony Burgess

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

Anthony Bourdain

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

Andy Serkis

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Andy Serkis

Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.

Andy Serkis

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

Andy Rooney

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

Andy Rooney

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

Andy Rooney

I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

Andy Rooney

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Stanley

I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.

Andy Stanley

There's a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.

Andy Warhol

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

Andy Warhol

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Andy Warhol

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

Andy Warhol

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Andy Warhol

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

Andrew Peterson

But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found

Alfred North Whitehead

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

Alfred Kinsey

If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.

Alfred Kinsey

It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.