Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Biffle

It's neat for Kyle to win, ... I think you'd have sympathy for anybody if you put yourself in that situation and got taken out of the race car. But I have absolutely no information about what was going on.

Graydon Carter

Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.

Greg Berlanti

I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great practical strides taken to improve diversity in front of and behind the camera.

John Dryden

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

John Mayer

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

John Maynard Keynes

Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.

John Malkovich

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

John Lubbock

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

John Lubbock

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

John Lydon

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

John Locke

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

John Lennon

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor.

John Lennon

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

John Landis

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

Jodie Foster

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

Justin Timberlake

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

Josh Gad

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

Joseph Lowery

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

Joseph Morgan

When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.

Joseph Hall

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

Joseph Hall

There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.

Joseph Hall

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

Katherine Heigl

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

Katherine Anne Porter

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

Karch Kiraly

How much we have to hydrate out here in this kind of heat and humidity. I think the most I have ever taken down in one day of fluids is five gallons - a gallon per match. If we didn't replace our fluids, we would probably keel over and die.

Karen Armstrong

So, we think about God far to easily and that's because of a lot of social, intellectual, and scientific changes that have taken place in the western world and that has made God very problematic for a lot of people.

Kate Green

Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos ...

Karen O

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

Karen Joy Fowler

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

Justin Smith

My family is taken care of, I'm taken care of and that's all that matters to me.

Joseph Conrad

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph.