Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Lynne

I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself.

Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Peter Tork

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

Peter Lawford

Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.

Peter Lerangis

Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.

Penelope Keith

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

Phil Donahue

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

Phil Collins

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

Phil Collins

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

Phil Collins

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

Phil Collins

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

Peter O'Toole

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!

Peter Jackson

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

Peter Cook

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Peter Carey

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

Phyllis McGinley

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

Philip Pullman

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

Philip Pullman

Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

Rachel Cohn

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

Rabindranath Tagore

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Rabindranath Tagore

Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

Rabindranath Tagore

We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind.

Rabindranath Tagore

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

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Pythagoras

The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear

Pythagoras

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Queen Latifah

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

Pixie Lott

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

Joshua Waitzkin

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

Josiah Royce

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Jostein Gaarder

Yes, we too are stardust.