Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Hobbs

Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Phyllis Schlafly

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

Rebecca Romijn

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

Michael Tippett

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

Ellen Burstyn

She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck.

Kevin Pietersen

Once you have the support of the lads around you, you can't ask for any more.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

Michael Symon

On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.

Sholom Aleichem

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

Luc Montagnier

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

John M. McHugh

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Carroll O'Connor

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Harold Pinter

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

John Muir

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

John Burroughs

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

Max Beerbohm

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Tom Odell

One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.

Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Peter Bart

One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.

Cindy Sheehan

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

Dave Mustaine

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Carolyn Murphy

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Temple Grandin

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

Chaka Khan

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

Deborah Eisenberg

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Viggo Mortensen

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Stewart Udall

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

Allen West

One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Sara Rue

One of the few things we can actually control in life is what we put in our bodies. I found that very empowering.

Tom Colicchio

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

Bruce Lipton

One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

Herbert Simon

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it

Ron Kind

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.

Lafcadio Hearn

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Ken Follett

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

Henry Paulson

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

Carla Gugino

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

June Jordan

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

Fernando Torres

One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.

Demi Lovato

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

Afrojack

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Kathy Reichs

One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

Camryn Manheim

One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

Mike Figgis

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.