Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Slim

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

Murray Gell-Mann

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

Vladimir Lenin

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Elia Kazan

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

Samuel P. Huntington

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.

John Berger

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Anderson Cooper

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Vince Cable

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

Richard Powers

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

Tommy Hilfiger

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.

Alex Campbell

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

Christopher Hitchens

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

Jon Katz

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

Joyce Giraud

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

Dianna Agron

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Charles Hazlewood

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

Tori Amos

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

Samuel Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Judith Martin

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Howie Mandel

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Beth Henley

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Sarah Vowell

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Mike Quigley

Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.

William Penn

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Mario Batali

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Tullian Tchividjian

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

Ben Stiller

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

Ludwig von Mises

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Victoria Justice

People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.

Nicolle Wallace

People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging.

Jane Seymour

People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.

Susan B. Anthony

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Norman Cousins

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Danny Meyer

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

David Cronenberg

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

Ann Romney

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Alan Moore

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Jordin Sparks

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Michael Mullen

Right now we're on the President Obama plan, and we'll stay with that. And from my perspective, the reason we're there is to make sure that we can achieve the principal goal which is ensure that Afghanistan can never become a safe haven for a terrorist organization like al Qaeda.

Ken Starr

Rights are in the power of the people.

Douglas Wood

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Stevie Nicks

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

Keith Richards

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

Kenneth Langone

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

Douglas Sirk

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.