Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sununu

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Gareth Gates

Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

Moby

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

David Gest

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

Cynthia Weil

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

Don Bluth

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Nouriel Roubini

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

David Steinberg

On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.

George Sand

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Georgia O'Keeffe

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

William Safire

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Laura Wasser

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

Rosamund Pike

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

Jasper Johns

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

Thomas Fuller

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Ruth Reichl

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

Scott Baio

One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.

Bre Pettis

One of my psychoses is that I feel like I can do anything. Actually, I believe anybody can do and make anything, even things that don't exist. The making isn't the hard part; it's having faith. If you do only reasonable things, you'll never start your own business.

Mortimer Adler

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Larry Holmes

One of the best ones out there was a guy named Howard Cosell. He was the best.

Luise Rainer

One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.

Jacques Pepin

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

Dan Buettner

One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

Bill Nye

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Jon Meacham

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Kathryn Bigelow

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

William Osler

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Arthur Henderson

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Brit Marling

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

Fred Wilson

One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.

Buzz Bissinger

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

Gene Robinson

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Martin Filler

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Alison Moyet

One of the reasons I got really fat when I left home was because I thought rich people ate white bread and Spam. I also thought they could get processed meals, because we never did, so that was exciting.

Robert Fisk

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.

Alice Oswald

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.

Zack Snyder

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

David Oyelowo

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

Gina Bellman

One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync.

Ted Danson

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

Richard Stallman

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

Moliere

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Gerry Mulligan

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

Peter Ackroyd

People are much more interesting than people realise.

Issa Rae

People are willing to support and watch web series as a legitimate form of entertainment.

Andrew Bernstein

People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

Tim Vine

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

Corey Taylor

People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

Teller

People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'