Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

Dick Van Dyke

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

Dick Van Dyke

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

Dick Van Dyke

Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.

Diane Johnson

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

Diane Johnson

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

Diane Lane

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Diane Ravitch

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

Diane Sawyer

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Diane Sawyer

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Diane Sawyer

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Diane Sawyer

Einstein was always looking for a unifying principle for the universe. I think anxiety about hair is the unifying principle.

Diane Sawyer

I love cabdrivers. I love their unpredictable manners. I love the pictures of their families on the visors. I love the fact that most of them think I'm Martha Stewart.

Diane Sawyer

I think no one knows my politics.

Diane Sawyer

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Lane

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

Diane Lane

I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

Diane Keaton

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Diane Keaton

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Diane Keaton

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

Diane Keaton

My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.

Diane Keaton

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

Diane Kruger

I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

Diane Kruger

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

Diane Kruger

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

Diane Kruger

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

Diane Kruger

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Diane Kruger

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

Diane Kruger

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

Dennis Potter

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

Dennis Potter

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Dennis Ritchie

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

Dennis Quaid

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.