Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Viswanathan Anand

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Samuel Richardson

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Bernie Siegel

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

Edmund White

Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

Philippe Petit

Passion is the motto of all my actions.

Michel Faber

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Rob Corddry

Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.

Michael Morpurgo

Paying more heed to the lessons of the past might teach us to be a little more cautious about some of the political decisions taken today.

Henri Nouwen

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Anurag Kashyap

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

Gregg Allman

People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em.

Hedi Slimane

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Malin Akerman

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Wolfgang Puck

Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

Kenneth Langone

Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.

Johannes Tauler

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Jane D. Hull

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

Adam Lambert

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

Suzi Quatro

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

Victor Ponta

Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

Anthony Anderson

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

John Sculley

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

Terry Eagleton

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

G-Eazy

'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

Alex Lifeson

Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled.

Ray Comfort

Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak.

Lauren Weisberger

Sadly, the only constant in my writing environment stems from some inexplicable need to listen to the news. CNN loops over and over in the background from the time I wake until the time I finally, blessedly, fall asleep.

James Caan

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

Eminem

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Demian Bichir

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

Charlie Pierce

School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.

James Blunt

School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.

George Wald

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Kary Mullis

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Hari Kondabolu

Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.

Elihu Root

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Douglas Horton

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

Debbie Ford

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Quentin Tarantino

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

Pat Brown

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Ritchie Blackmore

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

Sophia Loren

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.