Famous Quotes & Sayings

Valerie Jarrett

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

Valerie Bertinelli

I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

Uma Thurman

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Ulysses S. Grant

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

Robin Williams

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

Robin Williams

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Robin Williams

It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead.

Robin Williams

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

Robin Williams

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Robin Williams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Robin Williams

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Ince

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

Robin Hobb

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

Robert W. Service

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Wilson Lynd

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Ringer

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Robert Ringer

A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

Robert Nardelli

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

Robert Mugabe

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

Robert Nozick

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

Robert E. Lee

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Collier

The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.

Robert Collier

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Robert Collier

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Rob Sheffield

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

Rob Sheffield

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Rob Reiner

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Richard Posner

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Richard Paul Evans

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Richard P. Feynman

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!