Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Jarre

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

Maurice Jarre

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

Maurice Gibb

We worked for 11 years to get where we are today, and I want to take our work seriously so that later on I'll be able to appreciate the money we've made.

Matthew Perry

I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.

Matthew McConaughey

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

Matthew McConaughey

Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar.

Matthew Continetti

There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.

Mark Shields

The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.

Matt Barr

I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.

Matsuo Basho

Year's end still in straw hat and sandals

Edward Burns

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

Edward Brooke

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

Edward Brooke

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Edward Bellamy

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

Edward Bellamy

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Edgerrin James

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

Edie Sedgwick

In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem...Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.

Edie Falco

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Eddie Albert

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

Eckhart Tolle

Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.

Eckhart Tolle

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Eckhart Tolle

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace

Hoda Kotb

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

John F. Kennedy

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

John F. Kennedy

One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset.

Jonathan Kozol

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

Jonathan Horton

There is a period of tapering when we're not in the gym quite as long to try to save our bodies, but leading up to the competition we try to keep things similar to the rest of the year.

Jonathan Ive

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.

Jonathan Ive

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

Jonathan Franzen

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand it psychologically.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

Jonathan Carroll

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.