Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nadia Comaneci

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Criss Angel

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

Jim Yong Kim

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Miguel

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

Lorne Michaels

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

Daniel Goldstein

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

Jean Giraudoux

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Yochai Benkler

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

Nancy Roman

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

David Selby

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

Harry Knowles

One of the reasons so many kids bought 'Famous Monsters' was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.

Elyn Saks

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

David Simon

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

Gautam Adani

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

Tracy Hickman

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Donald Miller

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

Nicola Cornick

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Abraham Pais

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

Tablo

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

Wil Wheaton

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

Jeffrey Bernard

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Andres Serrano

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

Bill Williams

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

Mark Hamill

One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.

Dick Costolo

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

Gene Sperling

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

Sam Altman

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

Chuck Noll

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

Tony Ross

One of the troubles with signings is that you are surrounded by children, and some of them have got colds.

Alvin Ailey

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Lea Thompson

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Nancy McKeon

One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

Robert Byrne

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Leonid I. Brezhnev

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

August Strindberg

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

Kimbra

People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae - they're giving you a catchy song, but it's also a challenging song at the same time.

Greg Laswell

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

Anthony Hamilton

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Sidney Crosby

People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.

Chrisette Michele

People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.

Elizabeth Drew

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Abbe Pierre

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

Ed Begley, Jr.

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Troy Polamalu

People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be your last moment. I was the kind of guy who would never talk to my wife on game day. Now I'm the guy who's like, 'I love you.' I want my children to know I love them because I don't know what's going to happen out there.

Eve Ensler

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

Andrea Corr

People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

Lee Smith

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.