Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Short

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Katharine Graham

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

Puff Daddy

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Amanda Palmer

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

Vivek Wadhwa

One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.

Andrea Hirata

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

Ralph Merkle

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Layne Staley

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

Ed Harris

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself

Joseph Smith, Jr.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Patty Griffin

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

Ted Danson

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series...

Jane Welsh Carlyle

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

Julius Erving

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

Steve Case

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible

Bob Ross

One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em.

Daphne Zuniga

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Kim Jee-woon

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

Jessica Savitch

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

Lance Loud

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

Orhan Pamuk

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Tori Spelling

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Donatella Versace

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

Cameron Crowe

People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

Ricky Williams

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

Frank Ocean

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Eugene H. Peterson

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

Rebel Wilson

People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.

Jennifer Lopez

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

Sylvia Kristel

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

Damien Hirst

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

Katee Sackhoff

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

Eckhart Tolle

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Taylor Hanson

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

Fetty Wap

People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

Adrian Edmondson

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

Clarence Thomas

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

Nate Silver

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

Liz Phair

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.

Bill Buford

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

Jane Wiedlin

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

Marco Rubio

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

Della Reese

People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.

Harry Triguboff

People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.

Gary Oldman

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

Audrey Hepburn

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

Pete Sampras

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity

Katy Perry

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

Natan Sharansky

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.