Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Suzuki

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

Gordon Neufeld

Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It's when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It's just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can't do anything with them because it's a competing attachment.

Andrew Lansley

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Pele

Pele doesn't die. Pele will never die. Pele is going to go on for ever.

Fab Five Freddy

People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.

John Malkovich

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Walt Mossberg

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

Robert Conklin

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Claire McCaskill

Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

Nadine Gordimer

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Bee Wilson

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Richard Armour

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Charles Spurgeon

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Martin O'Malley

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin.

Patricia Reilly Giff

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

David F. Houston

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

River Phoenix

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Nell Carter

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

Tryon Edwards

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Charlie Hunnam

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

David A. Bednar

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.

Louise Fresco

Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

Leon Panetta

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Alex Noble

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Mary Quant

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

Conor McGregor

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Rex Harrison

Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

Brian Setzer

Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.

David Hanson

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.

Frankie Avalon

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

Malcolm Mclaren

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Peter York

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

Elvis Presley

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Joey Adams

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Zubin Mehta

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

Raymond Bonner

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

Oliver Goldsmith

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Charlotte Lamb

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

Kage Baker

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Giambattista Valli

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

Venerable Bede

Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

Pete du Pont

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

David Vitter

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

Linda Lavin

Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.

Arthur Helps

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Anselm Kiefer

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.