Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spike Milligan

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

Saadi

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

Sallust

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Sallust

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Martin Heidegger

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Olivia Cooke

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Orlando Bloom

Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

Gene Tierney

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Talcott Parsons

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Sydney Smith

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Sugar Ray Leonard

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

Sid Waddell

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.

Sigourney Weaver

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

William McFee

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Wong Kar-wai

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

William Gilbert

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

Walter Salles

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

Algernon Sidney

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

Bono

I'm the man that brought you the mullet.

Ben Carson

My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.

Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.

Becki Newton

I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

Tom Jenkinson

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

Teddy Sears

There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.