Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Coco Chanel

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

Clarice Lispector

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

Clara Mamet

This 'one big plan' thinking leads to a lot of the problems we're facing.

Claire Messud

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of us. But I think women's anger sits less well than anything else. Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think my goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?

Elizabeth Strout

I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.

Elizabeth Strout

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

Elizabeth Scott

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

Elizabeth Scott

I think...I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

Elizabeth Scott

I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.

Elizabeth Scott

I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

Elizabeth Scott

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

Elizabeth Scott

I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.

Elizabeth Scott

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

Elizabeth Scott

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Elizabeth Warren

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

Elizabeth Warren

A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn't get to beat out the competition because they're dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.

Elizabeth Taylor

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

Elizabeth Taylor

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

Elizabeth Taylor

I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

Elizabeth Taylor

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

Elize Du Toit

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Elizabeth Holmes

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Elizabeth Holmes

I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,

Elizabeth Holmes

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed,

Elizabeth Hurley

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

Eli Pariser

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

Eli Pariser

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

Eli Wallach

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

Eli Manning

I just want my sign and I want to throw it. I think it keeps everybody on their toes.