Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

Brigham Young

My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

Jane Fonda

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Jane Fonda

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

Laurie Helgoe

When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Kirsty Coventry

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Keri Hilson

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Junior Seau

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.

LaDainian Tomlinson

The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.

Leeza Gibbons

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

I think 'The West Wing' hit at a moment in time that was just right for that show.

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Enya

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

Elton John

There's no pressure for me to go out there and say, I've got to have a top 40 hit because it's not going to happen.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Eric Close

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.

Esha Gupta

When you walk on the road and people scream out your name, the high is unparalleled.

Calista Flockhart

Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.

Carlton Cuse

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Alanis Morissette

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I was a very unpredictable child. I'd pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days.

John Galliano

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

John Krasinski

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

Carlos Beltran

When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a step back. And when it was time for me to come forward, it was too late for me.

When he hit that, I knew he was going to be hot.

Alex Padilla

When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing.