Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Hamel

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

Jessica Simpson

I had doors slammed in my face as a 14-year-old because my boobs were too big.

Jerry Bruckheimer

And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

Jenni Rivera

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

Jennifer Aniston

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

Jennifer Aniston

I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM [Transcendental Meditation] and that's really changed everything.

Jeanne Calment

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

Jeanne Moreau

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

Jean Monnet

Via money Europe could become political in five years

Graham Norton

The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.

Gloria Estefan

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

Giacomo Leopardi

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Gerald R. Ford

We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

Jim Cummings

I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting." And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.

Jim Cramer

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

Jim Cramer

Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.

Jessica Szohr

After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.

Jess Walter

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

Hunter S. Thompson

I've been studying drugs for years.

Hunter S. Thompson

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

Hu Shih

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

Howard Stringer

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

Howard Stringer

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

Howard Thurman

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

Howard Rheingold

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years.

Howard Rheingold

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Howard Stern

I'm at a point in my career, I've been around a long time now, over 35 years in broadcasting. I don't worry about much. I respect what America's Got Talent is. It is a family show. It is a show that I love.

Howard Carter

Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.

Howard Berman

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.

Howard Fineman

In the ever accelerating world of the Internet, e-campaigning has gone from a novelty to a necessity in less than a year. With increasing sophistication and urgency, campaigns are using the Web as a bulletin board, advertising medium and organizing tool.