Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

I don't know (the family). But it didn't take long to understand their predicament.

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

I am just more focussed. He had got me not to give in, to keep going until the last,

Ben Feldman

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Ben Folds

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

Carl von Clausewitz

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

C. S. Lewis

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

C. S. Lewis

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

Burt Rutan

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Bryant H. McGill

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Bryant H. McGill

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Catherine Keener

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Carter Burwell

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Alain de Botton

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Al Franken

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration.

Al Franken

If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.

Al Gore

I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he? He's just unbelievable!

Al Gore

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

Charles R. Swindoll

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Charles Colson

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

Charles Darwin

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.

Charles Darwin

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.