Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Chavez

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Michael Scheuer

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

Win Butler

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

Francis Parkman

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

Henry Paulson

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

Francis Maude

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

David Neeleman

Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

Robert Stack

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

Wayne Coyne

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

Daniel Keys Moran

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

George Herbert Mead

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

Dana Rohrabacher

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

Brian Krzanich

Our view is that Quark can make almost everything smart. We'll show you some things that you would never have thought could become smart and communicate.

Tertullian

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Tim Murphy

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

Don McLean

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

Joe Perry

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

Norm Dicks

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

Will Hobbs

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.

Max Beckmann

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

Anna Freud

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Goldie Hawn

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

Mark Hoppus

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Zachary Quinto

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Barbara Walters

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Todd Solondz

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

Selma Blair

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

Mohsin Hamid

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

David Mixner

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

Kin Hubbard

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Henry Williamson

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.

Joyce Meyer

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

Tom Stoppard

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Anne Rice

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Christopher Nolan

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Rob Sheffield

'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

Ernest Mandel

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Reince Priebus

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

Dee Dee Ramone

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

Darren Aronofsky

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

Masaharu Morimoto

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

Oscar Pistorius

Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.

Steve Lacy

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.