Famous Quotes & Sayings

Junior Seau

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

Cat Power

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Maria Shriver

Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.

Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Mary Oliver

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

David Ogilvy

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Mike Huckabee

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Frances Beinecke

Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

Herbert Croly

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

Vijay Mallya

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

Mark Zandi

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Mark Kennedy

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

Lucas Papademos

Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

Cheech Marin

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

Kelly Preston

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.

Bob Dole

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

David Guetta

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Erwin McManus

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

Arthur C. Clarke

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Marlo Thomas

Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Frances Wright

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Mark Skousen

Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that enhance our lives.

Jennifer Granholm

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Marissa Mayer

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Oscar Arias

Our world is certainly dangerous, but it is made more dangerous, not less, by those who value profits over peace.

Gerald Chertavian

Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.

George Washington

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Rodney King

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

Leonard Slatkin

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

Joyce Meyer

Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Nicholas Sparks

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

Michael Eisner

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

Charles Lamb

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Susan Orlean

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Henry Cloud

Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

Mark Kennedy

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Ken Robinson

Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't feel they're good at. That may be because they underestimate their talents or haven't yet put the work in to develop them.

Pauley Perrette

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

Fay Wray

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

Kary Mullis

PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Naomi Wolf

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

Lech Walesa

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

Michael Kors

People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company. No one else knows what you're going through other than another designer.

Issa Rae

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.