Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel H. Wilson

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.

Eduardo Paes

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

Famke Janssen

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Robert Wagner

Rob Lowe, I've known him for a long time because I have three daughters, ya know. He's been cruising those three girls for a long time.

J. J. Abrams

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

Shawn Amos

Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants.

Taylor Hawkins

Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

David Mamet

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

Francesca Annis

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

Rick Perlstein

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

Frank Shorter

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Brennan Manning

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

Julie Burchill

Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

Christopher Columbus

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Gavin Newsom

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Bruce Sterling

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

Mae West

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Rene Redzepi

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

Yara Shahidi

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

Donna Karan

Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.

Michael Behe

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Michael Shermer

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Mireille Guiliano

Scientifically, it has been proven that after three bites, your palate has been satisfied. It doesn't matter what you eat. So if you eat one boule of ice cream, that's all you need. You don't have to eat pint after pint after pint.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Claudia Christian

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

Meg Cabot

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Paul Singer

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

Ruth Bernhard

Seeing comes from the inside, from the heart, from life's experiences.

Albert Schweitzer

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Danny Masterson

See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.

Robert Baden-Powell

See things from the boy's point of view.

William Law

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

May Sarton

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

Camille Claudel

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Jerry Brown

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

Blair Underwood

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

James Joyce

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Stephen Colbert

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Robert Fulghum

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Sylvia Earle

Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

Gilbert Parker

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

P. G. Wodehouse

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

David Brin

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.