Famous Quotes & Sayings

Missy Elliot

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Petra Stunt

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

Peter Drucker

Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government

Penn Jillette

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Penn Jillette

Luck is statistics taken personally.

Penn Jillette

So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.

Penn Jillette

Comedy is taken care of by a free market.

Peer Steinbruck

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

Peg Bracken

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Paulo Coelho

ALWAYS chose the road less taken.

Paulo Coelho

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

Paulo Coelho

We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure that ability or give it an economic value, it’s never taken seriously.

Marlo Thomas

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Megyn Price

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

Megan McCafferty

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Max Planck

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

Maurice Strong

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

Maurice Strong

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

May Sarton

Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

Max Heindel

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Maureen Reagan

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Maya Angelou

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

Maya Angelou

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Maurice Sendak

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

Safeguards need to be taken on an application-by-application basis.

They have taken away three sailors. We think they have been killed already.

David Ward

All of us have been taken on this deal.

Joan Crawford

A lot of them are being taken to Texas,

You don't get opportunities very often and when you get one and get it taken back, it's a little aggravating. But it worked out.

There was nothing I could do. She was taken away. She was there and I could not get her back.

This is a not a team to be taken lightly.

Ronald Reagan

You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.

Ronald Reagan

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.