Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Wole Soyinka

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

Wole Soyinka

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Neon Hitch

You can't party all the time - especially in January!

Neil Strauss

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

Neil Kinnock

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Renee Olstead

When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't particularly well coordinated either, which made me a bit of a liability in P.E.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Adam Rapp

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

Alice Oswald

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

Al Pacino

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

Alan Alda

I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.

Barbara Corcoran

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

Brit Marling

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Virgil

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Ralph Carter

When I got into Irving's, ... everyone was talking about it.

Melissa McCarthy

When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.

When I go in there, I'm trying to make plays,

When Ari throws a pitch, I know where it is going to go.

will.i.am

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.

Vonda Shepard

I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Ville Valo

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

Vanessa Ferlito

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

Iris Apfel

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Ira Sachs

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.