Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demian Bichir

A lot of the things that I've learned in the past have been from dear friends. Rodriguez's favorite line is "Fácil!" Easy! He makes things easy. He doesn't complicate his life. He's obsessed with perfection, but he makes it easy, and that's pretty much the way I work as an actor.

Demi Moore

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That's served in the past to create an image of me where I'm always frowning or looking angry.

Demi Lovato

All of my past challenges have helped me become who I am today.

Dean Koontz

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

Daniel Handler

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Daniel Handler

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Dan Barker

As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.

Craig Kilborn

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

Craig Ferguson

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

Coco Chanel

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,

Elizabeth Taylor

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

Elizabeth Janeway

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

Elizabeth I

The past cannot be cured.

Eli Manning

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

Asghar Farhadi

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The future seems to be in good hands, it's the past I'm worried about.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.

Apolo Ohno

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

Alanis Morissette

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

Blaise Pascal

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Billie Burke

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Billie Piper

Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years

Billie Holiday

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

Bill Gurley

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Diane Keaton

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Diane Keaton

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.