Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emilia Fox

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

Artie Lange

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

Alain de Botton

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

Richard Cobden

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

James Salter

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

Bill Paxton

On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

Reed Hastings

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Paul Muldoon

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place

George A. Romero

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

Nia Vardalos

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

Bebe Neuwirth

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Thomas Perez

On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager to serve.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Feist

Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

Tom Metzger

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

Paul Ricoeur

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

Evelyn Waugh

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Ella Maillart

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Ron White

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

Gil Scott-Heron

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

Linda Cardellini

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

Carlos Ghosn

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

Leona Lewis

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Brian Tracy

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Ace Frehley

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Ernest Mandel

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

Ian Mckellen

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

Clive Thompson

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

Stephen Moyer

Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.

Hamish Bowles

Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

Ben Stein

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Michael Nutter

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

Rupert Sheldrake

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

Samuel Goldwyn

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

Jimmy Buffett

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

Dan Stevens

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

Steve Nash

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

Common

Playing basketball is definitely one of my favorite things to do.

Jerry Cantrell

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

Peter Ustinov

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

David Foster Wallace

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Asghar Farhadi

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Mark Strand

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

Erica Jong

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

Edmund Waller

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

Jay Leno

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Maurice Saatchi

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.