Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grace Kelly

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

Grace Jones

I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.

Gilbert Parker

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.

Jack London

When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

H. P. Lovecraft

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

George Herbert

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

Georg Buchner

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled

Geoffrey Zakarian

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

Gene Hackman

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Gene Hackman

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Gene Hackman

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

Gene Hackman

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Gene Cernan

I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.

Gary Kemp

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

Gary Hamel

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Jessica Valenti

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

Jessica Simpson

Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much know-it-all pop star.

Jessica Simpson

I don`t want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, `That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.`

Jerry Coleman

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Francisco Rodriguez

I'm just at the beginning of my career and because of that I don't consider myself a star.

Franco Nero

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.

Franco Nero

I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

Francis Scott Key

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Francis Scott Key

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Francis Thompson

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.