Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Konitz

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

Solomon Ortiz

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

King Tuff

Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

Jane Fonda

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Christy Turlington

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

Alice Temperley

Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.

Linus Roache

Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't ask me why, I always felt very strongly that the point for me was to find a way to live a truly spiritual life in the modern day world and be able to work with all the positive aspects of our cultural and technological advancements.

Rick Scott

Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.

Graham Swift

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Diane Sawyer

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Maria Shriver

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Jim Rohn

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

Stephen Hunter

'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.

Bubba Watson

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

Victoria Wood

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

Salma Hayek

People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

Stephen Covey

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses

Rudy Giuliani

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Ginger Rogers

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

Eduardo Galeano

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Lisa Leslie

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

Chris Rock

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Alan Huffman

Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

Alan King

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Alia Shawkat

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

Carrie Brownstein

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

John Lennon

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Suzi Quatro

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

Mickey Mantle

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

Emanuel Celler

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

Ben Shahn

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Loretta Lynch

Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.

Compay Segundo

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Elizabeth McCracken

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

Nicole Kidman

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Ryan Holmes

Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas.

Will Ferrell

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

Henry Ian Cusick

'Scandal' is a huge hit. I'm happy for them, but it was never a really good fit for me.

Charles Platt

Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.

Nhat Hanh

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Jonathan Sacks

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Ed Markey

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

John Steinbeck

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Michael Chang

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

Ed Harris

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about

Richard G. Scott

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.