Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, 'How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?' It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

Ben Wheatley

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

Ben Webster

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Benicio Del Toro

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

Benazir Bhutto

The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

Benazir Bhutto

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

Benedict Cumberbatch

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Beatrice Webb

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Beatrice Webb

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

Bear Grylls

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

Bear Grylls

I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

Bear Grylls

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Bear Grylls

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.

Barnett Newman

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

Baroness Orczy

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

Barry Bostwick

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

August Krogh

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

Audrey Meadows

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

August Strindberg

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Audrey Hepburn

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Audrey Hepburn

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Audre Lorde

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

Audre Lorde

But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use against each other when the differences become apparent. And we wipe each other out - Black men and women can wipe each other out - far more effectively than outsiders do.

Audre Lorde

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Audre Lorde

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Athenaeus

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

Athol Fugard

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Athol Fugard

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Athol Fugard

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.