Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

Simon Callow

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

Georgette Heyer

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

Kate Chopin

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

Clive Cussler

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

Gypsy Rose Lee

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

Elizabeth Montagu

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

Mireille Guiliano

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Hilary Mantel

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

Leon Jouhaux

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

Rob Thomas

On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.

Rebecca Hall

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

Lee Radziwill

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

Scott Stossel

One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.

Eric Carle

One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!

Vincent Tan

One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because of my investment, we got promoted.

S. J. Rozan

One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

James Fenton

One does not become a guru by accident.

Loren Eiseley

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Larry Gelbart

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Alex Lifeson

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

Brooks Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

Donald Johanson

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Henry Kravis

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

Kristoffer Polaha

One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR.

Jose Marti

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Jean Rostand

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Benjamin Jowett

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

George Ade

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Arthur Koestler

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Robert Collier

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

David Lange

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.

June Carter Cash

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

Beilby Porteus

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

Stefan Zweig

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Enzo Ferrari

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

Ramana Maharshi

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Lawrence Eagleburger

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

Stephen Kinzer

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.

Frank Murkowski

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

Ted Cruz

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Richard Norton Smith

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.

Samantha Bond

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

Luanne Rice

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

Fiona Gubelmann

One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.

Ashton Shepherd

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

Marisa Miller

One of my favorite things to do is cook. I love taking the time to plan and prepare meals. I try to use all organic ingredients and make everything from scratch.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

One of my first days shooting on 'Game of Thrones' was possibly the coldest day I've ever experienced in my life, and that sticks out especially because I'd never, ever done anything before.