Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Landers

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

Ann Landers

Grown-up people can wait.

Ann Landers

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

Ann Landers

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

Ann Landers

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

Ann Landers

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

Ann Brashares

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.

Ann Coulter

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.

Ann Coulter

You know, OK, I made a few jokes and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.

Andrea Dworkin

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

Andrea Dworkin

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

Ana Castillo

There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.

Amy Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Amanda Crew

Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates me. I like to be open to a makeup artist's ideas on the look they want to create, but I always ask to keep my foundation pretty lightweight and luminescent.

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Allen West

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

Aerin Lauder

I'm natural, but I wear makeup seven days a week.

Afrojack

I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.

Afrika Bambaataa

I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.

Aesop

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

Aesop

Little friends may prove great friends.

Aesop

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

Aeschylus

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Rachel Weisz

People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

A. A. Milne

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Karen MacNeil

Wine is like music, ... If you're not listening, it doesn't matter what's playing on the stereo.

Wisconsin has had its management plan in place since 1999, so we're ready for this.

Wins is what matter now. We have two more games. We still have a shot.

Whether he's in Pittsburgh or New York, it doesn't matter when it comes to that because of technology.

Larry Brown

Wherever I've been it's always been about team. That's the only thing that really matters. If that doesn't matter you ought to run track, play golf, play tennis, things like that.

George Bernard Shaw

Whilst we have prisons it matters little who occupies the cells.