Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Miguel Ruiz

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

George Burns

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Mike Wallace

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Richard Branson

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Atom Egoyan

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Dan Gable

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Sam Raimi

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Ahmet Ertegun

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

Mike Huckabee

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Abu Bakr

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

Kristin Armstrong

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

Laila Ali

Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.

Lucinda Williams

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Tim Wise

Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.

Kate Forsyth

Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

James Buchan

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.

Leigh Steinberg

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

Paul Valery

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Alfred Molina

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

Thomas E. Mann

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

William Shenstone

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

Evo Morales

Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

Zoe Lister-Jones

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

Rudy Rucker

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Johann Lamont

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

Karl Kraus

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Alex Trebek

Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Henning Mankell

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

Lara Flynn Boyle

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Frances Beinecke

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Alan Furst

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Wayne Newton

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

Jerry Saltz

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

Luise Rainer

One can be more than once in love - that's the most important thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Marcy Kaptur

One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown

Billie Holiday

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Monica Crowley

One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.

Gerhard Schroder

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Lisa Kudrow

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Vincent Van Gogh

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

William Sanderson

One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.

Picabo Street

One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.

Summer Sanders

One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward?