Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel H. Wilson

'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature who has crashed the streets of Tokyo. And then, of course, there's the Terminator.

John Frusciante

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

Rachel Hunter

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

Tim Cahill

'Rolling Stone' had started something called 'Outside,' and since I was one of two people in the office that liked going outside, I was pegged to work on it. The concept of the magazine was simple: literate writing about the out-of-doors. I jumped at the opportunity.

Maurice Strong

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Dean Karnazes

Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.

Alessandra Ambrosio

Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

Henry L. Stimson

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Lou Holtz

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

William Ames

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

Scott Ritter

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

Heather Brooke

Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

Milla Jovovich

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Ang Lee

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

Bob Ehrlich

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

William Feather

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Peter Thiel

Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned.

Mike Pence

Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Pink

Sexy doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

George Edward Woodberry

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Peter Benchley

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

Kent Beck

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

William Congreve

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

Tom Wolfe

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

Smokey Robinson

Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist

Logan Mankins

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Don Bluth

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Robert Webb

On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Andrew Greeley

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

Cam Newton

One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.

Lilla Crawford

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

W. E. B. Du Bois

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Hunter Tylo

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

William Ellery Channing

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Danny Meyer

One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.

Peter Carey

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Walter Scott

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Laurence Sterne

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Kevin McCloud

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Ray Comfort

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Linda Cardellini

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Mariella Frostrup

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.

K. A. Applegate

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'