Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Ives

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Charles Frazier

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Bob Saget

Words matter. Especially if you're kicking someone's ass in words with friends.

Bob Saget

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

Bob Saget

Jon Lovitz. Jon, your act is like masturbation: you're the only one who enjoys it, and you should be arrested for doing it in public.

Billy Zane

What I love about directing is finding common ground in complementary palate with wardrobe, set design, the camera department, the makeup department, et cetera. I love figuring out that synergy. To have everything work in concert is amazing, I love working with that kind of logic. Directing is a cavalcade of taste decisions - this one or that one, but I raather enjoy it and am in the process of setting up the next endeavor.

Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Bipasha Basu

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Bipasha Basu

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

Bill McKibben

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

Bill Maher

Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.

Bill Maher

I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson doesn't.

Bill Maher

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Michael Franti

It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.

Nnedi Okorafor

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Gretchen Rubin

I always feel calmer when I exercise. In fact, that's probably the main reason I exercise.

Henry Zebrowski

It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time.

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

We're not going to quit. It doesn't matter what uniform we're wearing, or what name is on the back of our jerseys. We're just not going quit.

Louis C. K.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

Kurt Vonnegut

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Mark Cuban

Yes. And release prisoners who are incarcerated for pot.

Madeleine Albright

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Madeleine Albright

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Madeleine Albright

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

William Shakespeare

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

William Shakespeare

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

William Shakespeare

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

William Shakespeare

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

William Shakespeare

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

William Shakespeare

Fools are not mad folks.

William Shakespeare

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!