Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meriwether Lewis

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Yuvraj Singh

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

Henry Drummond

On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.

Bruce Willis

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Benjamin Cohen

On the other hand, always aim to be the best in what you do and give 100%.

Knute Rockne

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Greta Scacchi

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

Kate Adie

On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Hassan Nasrallah

On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.

Michael McCaul

On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support.

Diane Paulus

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Eberhard Weber

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

Delmore Schwartz

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

A. A. Milne

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Charles Hodge

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

Kathie Lee Gifford

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

Leon Redbone

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Isabel Yosito

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

Bill Owens

Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.

John McCain

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

Fernando Flores

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

Nigella Lawson

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

Sigourney Weaver

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

Sue Monk Kidd

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Dwight Schultz

People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.

Brian Koslow

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Irving Kirsch

Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

Sean Connery

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

Hermann Hesse

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

Susan Estrich

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Albert J. Nock

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Sam Shepard

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

Wen Jiabao

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as the wellspring and driving force. But, in this world of ours, often because of material gains and immediate interests, it is easy to neglect basic research. This should be avoided.

Erykah Badu

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Valerie Azlynn

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

Iain McGilchrist

Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Pietro Aretino

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Tony Snow

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Sophie Kinsella

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

Sam Abell

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

Nancy Lublin

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

Alain de Botton

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Bryan Procter

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

Ben Hogan

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

Philip Sidney

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Graham Coxon

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

Duke Ellington

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.