Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Davies

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Colin Greenwood

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Allen West

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Bruce Lipton

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.

Robert Lanza

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Andrew Cohen

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Drew Bledsoe

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

Tom Robbins

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Cobi Jones

Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.

Gary Hume

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

Steve Forbes

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

Chanakya

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Francis Picabia

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Kenzaburo Oe

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

Roger Ebert

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Steven Pinker

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Amanda Bynes

Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.

Katharine Weymouth

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

Marty Meehan

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

Don Lemon

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

Barry Sternlicht

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

Cat Stevens

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Harriet Tubman

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Charles Dudley Warner

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Usain Bolt

People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

Linda Hunt

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

Mo Ibrahim

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.

Tina Weymouth

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

Christopher Columbus

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Daniel Okrent

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Thomas Jefferson

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Ruben Hinojosa

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

Rodney Atkins

Right now my favorite TV show - because it's too close to home - is 'My Name Is Earl.' That show kills me. There's some funny stuff in there.

Terri Windling

Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know.

Robert Goulet

Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.

Anne Roiphe

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Robert Pozen

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

Stacy London

Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.

Ryan White

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

Nelson Peltz

Rupert Murdoch is a good friend of mine.

Vladimir Putin

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

Garry Kasparov

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Olivia Culpo

Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.

Tom Cruise

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.