Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Rabelais

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

Marquis de Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Peace Pilgrim

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Knute Rockne

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Thomas A. Edison

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Jack Canfield

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Ban Ki-moon

One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

Alessandra Ambrosio

One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.

Donna Mills

One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.

Christopher Atkins

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

Anton Yelchin

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

St. Vincent

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

George R. R. Martin

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

Annie Besant

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

Isabella Rossellini

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Drew Houston

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

Tobias Wolff

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Ben E. King

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

Dennis Ritchie

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

Gus Van Sant

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

Cory Booker

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

L'Wren Scott

One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.

Sharad Pawar

One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in this country. I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Milan Kundera

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Howard Stringer

People are going to like 3-D in their family photos.

Giancarlo Esposito

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

Gretchen Rubin

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.

Nancy Kerrigan

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

Jonathan Haidt

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

Cherie Lunghi

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrating because I think it detracts from some of the art and some of the craft of what we do. I'm at the helm of it, and I think that is what people don't see.

Sasha Grey

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

John Cena

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

Michael Symon

People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Terry Eagleton

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

Paolo Bacigalupi

People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

Carey Mulligan

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

Nicole Polizzi

People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself

Carl Lewis

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

Cheryl James

People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.

Carole Bouquet

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

Toby Young

People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

Brendan Myers

People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path.

Anna Deavere Smith

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Gavin Bryars

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Dhani Jones

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Colm Toibin

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Zoe Kravitz

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.