Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.

Maya Angelou

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Maurice Sendak

I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.

Maurice Sendak

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Matthew Williamson

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Matthieu Ricard

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Matt Smith

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

Matt Smith

I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

Marianne Williamson

[God is] an all-encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.

Marianne Williamson

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Marianne Williamson

I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.

Marianne Williamson

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

Marianne Williamson

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

Marianne Williamson

During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else.

Marianne Williamson

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Marianne Williamson

Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

Marianne Williamson

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

Mark Marissen

Part of the reality is it's a much longer campaign, but everybody is faced with the same campaign limits as if it was a 36-day campaign.

Mark McClellan

Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the risks and benefits of drugs in specific populations. Pharmacogenomics is a new field, but we intend to do all we can to use it to promote the development of medicines. By providing practical guidance on how to turn the explosion of pharmacogenomic information into real evidence on new drugs, we are taking an important step toward that goal.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

Mark Levin

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

Mario Cantone

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

Mario Batali

The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.

Mario Batali

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn is real. I wake up and I am Marilyn.

Marilyn Manson

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

Marilyn Manson

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

Marilyn Manson

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

Marilyn Manson

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Marilyn Manson

I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.

Marilyn Manson

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

Marilyn Manson

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

Marilyn Manson

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.