Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giancarlo Esposito

When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

Harvey Weinstein

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Harold Ramis

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

Griffin Dunne

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

James Bovard

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

Jalal Talabani

No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

Jairam Ramesh

Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

Jacki Weaver

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

Jack White

I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

James Galway

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

J. William Fulbright

We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

J. R. R. Tolkien

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

Iyanla Vanzant

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Iyanla Vanzant

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

Iyanla Vanzant

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

Iyanla Vanzant

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

Ireland Baldwin

Apparently I'm in rehab for intensive partying soooo I'm just going to lay pretty low for a bit and maybe get some frozen yogurt.

Ellen Gilchrist

I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.

Ella Baker

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

Elle Fanning

Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

Jeaniene Frost

Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?

Jeremy Miller

For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.

Jeremy Irons

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I entered the [Communist] Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

George Will

Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, 'Necessitous men are not free men'.

George Will

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

George Will

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

George Will

Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.