Famous Quotes & Sayings

January Jones

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

Janis Joplin

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

Janice Dickinson

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

Janet McTeer

If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.

Janet Reno

I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men.

Janet Reno

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.

Jane Smiley

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Jane Harman

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Miley Cyrus

No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.

Mike Hargrove

There are some specific things we wanted to talk to Felix about. They're more mental things than anything else.

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Sarah Martin

Numbers are always impressive. There is a 3 to 1 ratio between men to women faculty.

Michel Salgado

Now's the time to show that we are real men,

No excuses. We just have to get better prepared mentally to play. Mentally, we just weren't in the game.

Pat Summitt

I don't think I've mentioned it to the players one time,

If I had to put together 100 men today, I could do it,

Maria Sharapova

I feel like I'm mentally tougher out there,

If others have sinned you need not mention it

Jami Attenberg

I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

Joe Gibbs

I couldn't see them overturning that, ... They called it, they reviewed it, and they reversed it. The way their team reacted, I thought it was a done deal. They didn't mention anything to me. They just reversed it.

I am disappointed in how we played. I really think it's a mental block. We were so keyed up, we had a letdown.

Joan Leslie

I am always begging them to spare me this chasing after men.

Benjamin Disraeli

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Ben Feldman

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising,

Ben Feldman

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

Ben Feldman

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Ben Feldman

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Ben Folds

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Barry Long

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

Barry Long

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Carl von Clausewitz

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Carl von Clausewitz

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Carl von Clausewitz

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.