Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rohinton Mistry

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Robin Morgan

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Samuel Johnson

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Samuel Johnson

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Sarah Paulson

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

Walter Jon Williams

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Walter Kirn

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

William C. Bryant

Follow thou thy choice.

Winona Ryder

I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, "Oh, thanks." And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy's and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn't pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.

Woodrow Wilson

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

Wole Soyinka

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

Wilmer Valderrama

The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.

Warren Farrell

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

W. Clement Stone

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

Yvon Chouinard

Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

Walter Rudolf Hess

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

Will Smith

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

Will Smith

Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

Virginia Woolf

It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

Werner Herzog

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Werner Herzog

That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.

Salma Hayek

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'

Salman Rushdie

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Scott McNealy

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Saul Perlmutter

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

Saul Kripke

I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps ... Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.

Scoot McNairy

I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.

Laurie Halse Anderson

And then a new screen, one I had never seen before, never even heard of popped up. It gave me a choice. I could become the new Lord of Darkness myself, or I could take a gamble and be reincarnated. I chose wisely.

Laura Berman

You have a choice every moment of the day to open yourself up. And when you do that, it opens the channels of love.

Terry Tempest Williams

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Terry Pratchett

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Terry Bradshaw

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.