Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betsey Johnson

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

Bette Davis

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

Bette Davis

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Benjamin Rush

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Benjamin Rush

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations

Benjamin Rush

There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.

Benjamin Rush

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

Benjamin Rush

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

Ashley Tisdale

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.

Ashton Kutcher

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

Ashton Kutcher

I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.

Ashton Kutcher

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

Arrigo Sacchi

Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space

Arsenio Hall

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Anton Seidl

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.

Antoni Tapies

An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.

Antoni Tapies

With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself.

Anthony Storr

It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

Antoine Lavoisier

As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.

It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.

I think 'Spider-man' is a pop culture rock show that was meant to be in arenas.

Patrick Murphy

Just because you're pro-choice doesn't mean you're a Democrat.

Doris Roberts

Just because you're over 40 doesn't mean you're not hot, or talented, ... Look who won!

Just because you're a thief, just because you're a liar, doesn't mean you're a murderer.

Just because you have money, doesn't mean you have to spend it.

Just because you can talk, it doesn't mean you're making sense.

Just because they're a No. 6 seed, that doesn't mean anything. Not this year in our league.

Just because they are old does not mean they are not lethal.

Kosher wine has always meant a very thick, syrupy sweet wine.

Romesh Gunesekera

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Antoine Fuqua

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

Antoine Fuqua

Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept.