Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erin Gruwell

Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I'd see it coming.

James Sinegal

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Betty Williams

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

Tia Mowry

People always say you never know love until you have your own child and all of that is true.

Russell Simmons

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

Marilu Henner

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

Adam Carolla

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

Virginia Postrel

Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.

Bill Burr

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

Richard Branson

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

Kathryn Bigelow

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

McKayla Maroney

Rio 2016 is definitely on my mind, and I would really like to go to some more World Championships before that.

Karel Capek

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

Brian Setzer

Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

Geena Davis

Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.

George Thorogood

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

Samantha Shannon

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

Tatum O'Neal

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.

Richard Leakey

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

Phillips Brooks

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Bill O'Reilly

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

Lillie Langtry

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

Alex Van Halen

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

Clive Sinclair

Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion nature's bounty into man-made treasures.

Jenifer Lewis

Saturday night is when my hair would be fixed up and that was my memory.

Eric Betzig

Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.

Henri Poincare

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Anthony Fauci

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Bill Nye

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

Gregory Benford

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Jean Piaget

Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Walter Gilbert

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

Seth Shostak

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced.

Lawrence Wright

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

Jon Meacham

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

Madame de Stael

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

Michael Ignatieff

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

Germaine Greer

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Giordano Bruno

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

H. Rap Brown

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Maxwell Maltz

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

Peter York

Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

Vince Staples

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

Douglas Wilder

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

Imogen Poots

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.