Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wole Soyinka

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

Wole Soyinka

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

Neon Hitch

You can't party all the time - especially in January!

Neil Strauss

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

Neil Kinnock

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Adam Rapp

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Melissa McCarthy

When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.

Vonda Shepard

I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.

Vanessa Ferlito

I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

Ira Sachs

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Shinzo Abe

Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific.

Lisa Unger

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

Dick Cheney

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

David Satcher

We don't have a lot of time with inhalation anthrax,

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

James Keller

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, "I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off."

James Keller

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."

James Keller

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

James Keller

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."

Vidya Balan

I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.

Paulo Coelho

I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Richie Benaud

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

Nas

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Francine Prose

Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.

Francine Prose

I'm in a rage all of the time.

Courtney B. Vance

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

Laura Anne Gilman

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.

Charles Kettering

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Charles Kettering

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.