Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Birkin

I colour my hair mousy brown and I wear makeup only on stage. I use Laura Mercier - something called Biscuit, I think. I run one tiny sponge over my face and cover the red blotches. If I've got some rouge, I'll bung it on my mouth and cheeks.

John Bradshaw

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

Debby Ryan

My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!

Chuck Palahniuk

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

Barack Obama

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Barack Obama

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

Lindy Ruff

The good part is that it was broke up by getting home for a day before Toronto, and now home for a few more days. It's now been broken down to a one-game trip, so it's a lot easier to digest.

Reese Witherspoon

I really wanted to be a Broadway kid.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon.

Richard Stallman

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

Richard Eyre

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.

Marco Rubio

It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.

Tom Izzo

We had one stretch where we felt we were getting clobbered in there and Dee Brown took over. A combination of the two is not a pretty sight.

Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

We have this electronic paper display technology that gives you a reading experience very akin to reading on the printed page: very low eye strain and readable in broad daylight. It's as close to reading a printed page as you can get.

Adoniram Judson

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

We have the weapons inspectors returning, mixed corporate reports and no new economic news to focus on, so stocks are taking a little pause, ... The broader market is mixed to lower but is showing no great declines, while the techs continue to perform a little better.

We were going to retire to Louisiana, but my brother died and then my sister-in-law died, and we lost interest. We owned land here so about four years ago we decided to build a building.

Today, there isn't any economic news, and the earnings news is having an impact on those stocks but not the broader market.

To lose my little brother is hard, ... But I know he'd want me to play. I know my brother wouldn't want me to sit back, mope and whine and get into that state you can when you have a family member pass away.

Jessica Marais

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

To win the championship you have to go through Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've been coaching 37 years and only eight times has a team outside of those boroughs won.

Travis finally broke out of it. He hasn't been playing particularly well, and Claxton was a warrior all night.

You know what, my brother is a go-getter so I didn't really need to tell him anything. He knew what was expected of him and he knew what he needed to do.

David Axelrod

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state.

Rod Smith

You know the saying 'break glass in case of emergency,' ... We broke the glass and he came through. All of a sudden I looked up and saw his back. I was like 'Run, run.'

Mira Nair

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

When I saw that on television, it just broke my heart because I know what those miners go through.

We needed the weight of the live oaks brought up so they wouldn't split. It took a lot of trimming.

Charles Kennedy

We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.

Lovie Smith

We needed to get the offense kick-started a little bit. Rex has come from a lot to go down like he did early in the preseason. ... We really liked the energy he brought to our football team when we brought him in.