Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Carol Oates

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Richard Cobden

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

Marvin Sapp

One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.

Courteney Cox

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

Donna Brazile

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

Warren Littlefield

One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

Michael Burgess

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

Chiang Kai-shek

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

Ayn Rand

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Douglas MacArthur

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Victoria Abril

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

Sheridan Smith

On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.

Charles Stanley

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Hannah Kearney

On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

Rick Moranis

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

Ethan Zuckerman

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'

Carlisle Floyd

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

Ronald Frame

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

Amber Tamblyn

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Kerry Stokes

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

George Matthew Adams

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

David Chase

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

Ryan White

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Cristina Saralegui

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

Edsger Dijkstra

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

David Fincher

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

Max von Sydow

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

William Graham Sumner

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

China Mieville

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

Imran Khan

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Bill Mumy

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

Stephen Leacock

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Kate Reardon

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

Elias Canetti

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Don Shula

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

Michael Schenker

Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

Claire Tomalin

'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.

Al Goldstein

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

Joan Chen

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Max Greenfield

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

Simon Sinek

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.

Kid Rock

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

Derrick Rose

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

Mark Zupan

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.