Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mario Puzo

Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Marilyn Monroe

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

Marilyn Monroe

Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything.

Marilyn Monroe

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

Noam Chomsky

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Noam Chomsky

If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Noam Chomsky

I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.

Noam Chomsky

In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

Noam Chomsky

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.

Niklaus Wirth

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Nikki Reed

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

Nikki Sixx

President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.

Nikki Giovanni

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

Nicole Richie

I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.

Nicole Richie

They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try.

Nicola Sturgeon

I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Nico Tortorella

Everybody knows what love is in one way or another, and everybody has an answer of what love means to them.

Nicki Minaj

Materialistic I'm narcissistic My shoe game is mean It's so sadistic

Nicki Minaj

That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal

Nicki Minaj

I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn’t bow down.

Nicki Minaj

Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.

Nicki Minaj

I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

Nicki Minaj

I mean we cant even rock them shoes if it dont got a comma on the price tag ya know. I mean.. I mean but then again who looks at the price tag ya know?

Nick Hornby

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

Nick Hornby

Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.

Matt Drudge

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

Matt Dillon

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

Matt Dillon

I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.

Matt Damon

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

Matt Damon

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

Mary McCarthy

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

Marvin Hier

Now documentary evidence is acceptable. What does that mean? If you have documentary evidence that a person served as a guard in one of the death camps and the documents have been authenticated, that is grounds to charge the person with crimes against humanity. And that's why you see the spate of trials previously, for example, in the '70s and the '80s, even in the low '90s. That was not the case until the change in the law.