Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud

But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id.

Shirley MacLaine

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

Shaun White

There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.

Scott Westerfeld

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

Steven Van Zandt

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

Robert Burns

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Ricky Skaggs

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

Ridley Scott

It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.

Ridley Scott

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

Ricky Williams

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

Richard Sherman

I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

Richard Neal

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Richard Neal

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

Richard Adams

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

Sammy Hagar

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

Sylvia Earle

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist.

Suze Orman

Cut back your spending now.

Susan Sontag

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

Scott Westerfeld

Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.

Scott Westerfeld

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

Scott Westerfeld

She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

Scott Adams

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.

Joss Whedon

What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

Kofi Annan

I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

Kofi Annan

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline.

Kofi Annan

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

Kim Jong-un

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Kim Jee-woon

Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.

Kevin Hart

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Kevin Hart

I didn't want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

Kent Conrad

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

Kenneth C. Griffin

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.