Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ina Garten

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

Ichiro Suzuki

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Hyman Rickover

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Gloria Swanson

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Gloria Steinem

I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

Gloria Steinem

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Gloria Steinem

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

Gloria Steinem

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

Gloria Steinem

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

Giorgio Agamben

Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

Giorgio Armani

When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.

The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.

Harry Reid

The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.

Harry S Truman

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S Truman

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

Harry S Truman

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

Harry S Truman

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

J. Michael Straczynski

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

J. M. Coetzee

What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

J. K. Rowling

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.

J. K. Rowling

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

H. G. Wells

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

H. L. Mencken

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

Greg Iles

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

Grace Napolitano

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.

Grace Napolitano

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

Grace Hopper

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

Gilbert Adair

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

George Herbert

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

Georg Baselitz

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.