Famous Quotes & Sayings

China Mieville

'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Esther Rolle

I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

The picture was laying on his stomach when he died.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.

William Cowper

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Victoria Osteen

Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

Alice Walker

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Nicola Peltz

My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.

Luke Evans

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

Neil Innes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Neil Innes

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

Neil Jackson

The women in 'Downton Abbey' don't compare to the women in 'Upstairs Downstairs.' Ours are stunning. We've got Laura Haddock, Keeley Hawes, Claire Foy... beautiful women.

Luis Federico Leloir

The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.

Mark Johnson

We did things a lot better than we did last week. We're better offensively than we have been in the past two weeks.

We did the first big training session last fall.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

Banksy

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

Lionel Stander

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Yuvraj Singh

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

Brandon Flowers

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Caitlin Moran

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Cam Newton

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

We're lining up the land planning on that site right now.

We're laying it out today to say this is where we want to get to.