Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Charles Spurgeon

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

Carine Roitfeld

I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

C. S. Lewis

If there is equality it is in His love, not in us.

Miley Cyrus

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

We've struggled in that type of situation all year long. So it was nice to get a hit there and get a more comfortable lead.

Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Busta Rhymes

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Celia Green

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Carol Ann Duffy

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.

Alan Coren

Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

Alain de Botton

The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Mild weather is one of the factors, and we're going into the heating-oil season with high stocks.

Millicent Fawcett

Mr. Mill was the one member of Parliament whose high intellectual position enabled him to raise the question without being laughed down as a fool.

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Mr. Rader does not see himself as a monster, ... He sees himself as a human being with a monster inside of him.

Mother nature still has us in its sights. I hope it just wings us rather than hitting us in the gut.

McArdle hit some big shots for us in that first half. He really kept us in the game.

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

Lloyd Carr

Max put himself right in the middle of our running back situation.

Matt?s been hitting like that for us all year.

Armand Assante

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.