Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Margaret Halsey

The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.

Margaret Halsey

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

Kin Hubbard

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Michael Lewis

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

Michael Foley

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

Michael Feinstein

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

Michelle Branch

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

Michael Ondaatje

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read into hardly anything at all.

Michael Ondaatje

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

Michael McKean

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

I'm jealous, he has more friends than I did and I've been on longer than him.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived.

Nancy Pelosi

The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.

Morgan Freeman

I'm married, I've been married to the same woman for - well, I've been with the same woman for close to...long enough to fool around.

Morgan Freeman

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

Morgan Freeman

As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.

Morgan Freeman

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Miles Davis

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Mila Kunis

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

Milan Kundera

Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

Mike Leigh

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

Miguel Syjuco

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Marcel Proust

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

Marcel Proust

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Joseph Barbera

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Joseph Barbera

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

LaVell Edwards

And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

Laura Marling

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

Lance Armstrong

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

Laini Taylor

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Laini Taylor

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.