Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wolfgang Tillmans

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

Martin Seligman

On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

Bill Budge

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

William Kunstler

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.

Michael Moore

Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

Menachem Begin

Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Sander Levin

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.

Marc Ostrofsky

Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

Genevieve Gorder

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Roger Penrose

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Woody Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Antonin Scalia

Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Sam Wyly

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

Troy Polamalu

Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

Robert Moog

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Shannon Miller

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Gavyn Davies

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

Willard Van Orman Quine

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

Vladimir Putin

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Jerome K. Jerome

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

Gary Oldman

People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

Jasmine Guinness

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

Dylan Moran

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Marina Abramovic

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

Geraldo Rivera

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem

Edward P. Jones

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Greg LeMond

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Tuppence Middleton

Period dramas seem to take actors to the next level because they do so well in America.

Alfred North Whitehead

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Sasha Grey

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

Lauren Graham

Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.

Oliver Hudson

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove.

Ban Ki-moon

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

Monica Bellucci

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

Dinaw Mengestu

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

Willie Robertson

Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Sidney Hook

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Barbara Olson

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.

Mary Ellen Mark

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

Bob Geldof

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

Criss Angel

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.

Tibor Kalman

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.