Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyson Chandler

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

John Battelle

Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with the physical and virtual worlds. What is Siri but search? What are apps like Yelp or Foursquare, but structured search machines? Search has become embedded into everything and has reached well beyond its web-based roots.

Judy Biggert

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Georg Simmel

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

Mollie King

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

H. Rap Brown

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

Stokely Carmichael

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Barry Commoner

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Martha Beck

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Pat Brown

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

Malcolm Boyd

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Lyn Nofziger

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Sophia Loren

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Barbara Corcoran

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

Phyllis Schlafly

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

James McAvoy

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

Dorothy L. Sayers

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

David O. Selznick

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Henny Youngman

She's a big-hearted girl with hips to match.

Isabelle Huppert

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things

Gigi Hadid

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

Charley Pride

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

Hannah Murray

On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

Kara Swisher

'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.

John McCain

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

Bernard Cornwell

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Mary J. Blige

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

Trevor Nunn

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

Gene Tunney

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Frank Moore Colby

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

John Dewey

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Ivan Turgenev

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Theodore Bikel

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.

May Sarton

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Will Ferrell

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

Charles R. Swindoll

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

Michael O'Donoghue

One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

Bryan Callen

One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.

Scarlett Johansson

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

Harri Holkeri

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

Martin Jacques

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.

Jean Cocteau

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.