Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Powell

Saying “I'll try” means our soul isn't really in it. We tell ourselves “I'll try” when our inflated egos won't come clean and admit that we're actually not all that determined. We can't overcome obstacles with the words “I'll try.” As Yoda, the philosopher in the Star Wars movies, says, “Do, or do not. There is no 'try.

Chris Kattan

Can you know the mighty ocean? Can you lasso a star from the sky? Can you say to a rainbow... 'Hey, stop being a rainbow for a second'? No! Such is Mango!

Chris Isaak

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

Chris Jericho

In true rock star fashiuon, I had insomina last night and I didn't sleep at all. So all I need is a bottle of Jack Daniels and some groupies, and I'll be just like David Lee Roth.

Chris Hayes

Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

George W. Bush

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

George Takei

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

George Takei

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

George Takei

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad,

George Takei

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

George Steiner

Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.

George Raft

Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.

George R. R. Martin

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

Hunter S. Thompson

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.

Humphrey Carpenter

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Humphrey Bogart

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

Howard Stern

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

Howard Schultz

When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.

Howard Schultz

The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.

Howard Bloom

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

Ice T

The rock'n'roll lifestyle really is available to anybody that's got money. Honestly. Once you get money, if you interview a hundred people with money, they'll all sound like rock stars.

Ice Cube

You don't have to be super clean to be a super star

Ice Cube

There's nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.

Ice Cube

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

For now, they'll be trying to see what they can negotiate. When they see what they're not going to get, they'll start saber rattling.

Isaac Disraeli

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

Isaac Marion

I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.

Isaac Asimov

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

Isaac Asimov

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.