Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

Tao Okamoto

Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

Terri Sewell

When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.

We are going to make a decision on what is fair and move forward from there. We are going to sit down with the towns, the school districts and the companies and discuss this issue. We will certainly take this testimony in consideration during those talks.

Elizabeth Gilbert

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

Emma Thomas

Twitter wasn't a big thing even on 'Inception;' it certainly wasn't on 'The Dark Knight.'

Ellar Coltrane

I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

Elizabeth Emken

When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

Elizabeth Holmes

No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to help people engage with the data once their physicians release it. You can't do that if you don't really understand why you're getting certain tests done and when you don't know what the results mean when you get them back.

Ellen McLaughlin

I'm very comfortable in the air. And if you're really in love with flight, you're in love to a certain extent with being outside of the body, not grounded. The problem is, if you're not in your body, you can't actually feel anything particularly authentically.

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

Ernie Harwell

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

Callie Khouri

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

Blaise Pascal

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Kerri Strug

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

Kevin Love

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.

Kevin Love

When you're on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn't do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by - legacy. Go about things the right way.

Katie McGrath

I wasn't born an actress, but I was certainly born dramatic!

Johan Cruyff

Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.

Jason Ritter

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

Rick DiPietro

When you're already out of the playoffs, you need to find to certain things to motivate you. I thought we did a good job of stressing the fact that this is a huge rivalry for us and we owe it to our fans and ourselves to come out and put in a good effort.

When you put your name on a fund, there's a certain element of pride, of not wanting to be embarrassed or neglectful. . . . It forces you to want to work just a little harder to be right.

We had chances, but didn't capitalize. (Cathedral) needed three points to get in; so they played well. They certainly weren't playing for the tie.

We had certainly hoped for a favorable decision by the parliament, but I want to emphasize our relationship and the importance of the work we have done thus far, and the fact that the United States is still a friend of Turkey and we consider this relationship to be very important.

Rick Carlisle

We had a whole scheme set up to double-team him. He goes out of the game, it certainly changes the complexion of the game for their team.

Donald Judd

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Toni Tennille

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.

Tao Lin

I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.

In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

Tyra Banks

I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Todd Rundgren

All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not the highest. It may come to a point where people take rock and roll musicians more seriously than they take politicians. It may eventually turn out that musicians have more credibility.