Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

Barney Frank

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Barney Frank

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

Barney Frank

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

Barney Frank

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

Audrina Patridge

I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

Audrey Tautou

I don't want to think my life as a career.

Audrey Tautou

Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.

Audrey Tautou

I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.

Audrey Tautou

I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.

Audrey Tautou

I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.

Audrey Tautou

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

August Wilson

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

August Wilson

We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

August Wilson

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

Audrey Hepburn

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

Audrey Hepburn

How shall I sum up my life? I think I’ve been particularly lucky.

Audrey Hepburn

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

Audrey Hepburn

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Audre Lorde

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Audre Lorde

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

Astrid Lindgren

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

Athol Fugard

I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

I don't think leadership demands yes or no answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.

Arthur Rubinstein

Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.

Arthur Rimbaud

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

Arne Glimcher

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Arne Duncan

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina,

Arnold J. Toynbee

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

Arnold Palmer

I think the guys are more conscious of the fact that being in good physical condition under the conditions that they play will make them better players.

Arnold Palmer

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.