Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

If this incomplete ayaan hirsi wants fame sooo much then she shouldn't use religion as a base to be known. Some people justify their in justifications by selling their souls to the devil, ayaan I'm sure u have taken the time to read the bible. Do tell me it's stance on woman comparing to men...

Avril Lavigne

I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

Arthur C. Clarke

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Arthur C. Clarke

. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Arthur C. Clarke

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

Anton Chekhov

You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

bell hooks

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

bell hooks

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

Baltasar Gracian

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Asa Butterfield

The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

Arundhati Roy

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

Arianna Huffington

I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

Anthony Trollope

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Demi Lovato

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

Demetri Martin

A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets.

Daniel H. Pink

The right brain is finally being taken seriously.

Daniel Goleman

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

Craig Kilborn

The election is in full-swing. Republicans have taken out round-the-clock ads promoting George Bush. Don't we already have that? It's called Fox News.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

Elizabeth Taylor

A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.

Elizabeth Taylor

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously

Elizabeth Taylor

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Eli Whitney

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Eli Manning

Be committed to whatever you're doing. That's something I've taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

Elia Kazan

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Ashlee Simpson

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.

Arlen Specter

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

Ben Shahn

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

Ben Stein

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.