Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Barenboim

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

Daisaku Ikeda

Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

Conan O'Brien

A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

Condoleezza Rice

A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.

Condoleezza Rice

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

Clarence Thomas

I'm not an Uncle Tom. . .. I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

Claude Monet

One can do something if one can see and understand it...

Dante Hall

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

Dan Simmons

It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

Dan Quayle

Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it's got a particularly unique situation.

Isaiah Washington

I didn't know what gay was until I lived in New York for 10 years. You know, I was just underexposed in that regard.

Meryl Streep

She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career.

Meryl Streep

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Dogen

Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.

Dogen

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

Dinah Shore

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Donna Karan

I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

Isabel Allende

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

Jack Osbourne

I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

Cindy Crawford

There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.

Ridley Scott

I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.

P. J. O'Rourke

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

Marianne Williamson

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We only understand that which already within us.

Jason Varitek

We'll just have to see. You don't know until you have him here.

Fans, don't go away, because it's never over until it's over here.

But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

If you are not living unto Christ, you are not dying unto Him, either.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Denis Waitley

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.