Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine Hepburn

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Joseph Haydn

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Kate Spade

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Leonard Cohen

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Lawrence Welk

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Laura Z. Hobson

Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

Lasse Hallstrom

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Jules Renard

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

Julius Charles Hare

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Otto von Bismarck

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Kanye West

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Paul Theroux

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Paul Kagame

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

Martin Luther

Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

Nick Lampson

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

Paul Newman

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Martha Beck

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Paul Hawken

If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.

Joseph Stalin

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Rachel Maddow

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

R. L. Stine

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Nhat Hanh

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

Nhat Hanh

Our own life has to be our message.

Nhat Hanh

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

Nhat Hanh

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

Nhat Hanh

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

Joey McIntyre

Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.

John Green

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

Marilyn Monroe

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Marilyn Monroe

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

Marilyn Monroe

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Marilyn Monroe

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.