Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Hermes

'Rhye' clearly plays with notions of sexual identity, and it has made a concerted effort to keep its own identity mysterious. Its love songs are gender-neutral, the members have declined to appear in their own videos, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a photo of the duo that doesn't cast them in shadows.

Tony Wilson

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Richard Norton Smith

Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.

Herbert Kaufman

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Neymar

Right now I'm living my boyhood dream, which was to play for a European club. The fact that it's a huge club like Barcelona makes it a tremendous honour. I like everything about the city: the climate, the people. It's quite similar to Brazil, which helps a lot. There's even a beach!

Amy Jo Johnson

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Ron Wyden

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

Judy Biggert

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Sarah Shahi

Right when I finish a workout, I feel pretty sexy. Even though I'm sweaty and I don't smell like a rose, I feel strong. It does a lot for me mentally and physically.

Andre Weil

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Slash

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Michael Johnson

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

Ranulph Fiennes

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

Edna Ferber

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Treat Williams

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Willie Mays

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

Billy West

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

Pete Conrad

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

Gary Gygax

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Nicholas Sparks

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

Goldwin Smith

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

W. Averell Harriman

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

Rich Little

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

Victoria Woodhull

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Chuck Yeager

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Vera Farmiga

Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

Anthea Turner

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Niki Lauda

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

David Ulevitch

Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

Don Kardong

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

James Galway

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Ryan Cabrera

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

Tiki Barber

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Robert Hewison

Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation,

Anatoly Chubais

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

Nate Parker

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.

Mike Pence

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Luanne Rice

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

George Matthew Adams

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

Kirsty Gallacher

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

Alfonso Soriano

Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

George Halas

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

Ben Nicholson

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Nick Cannon

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

Patrick MacGill

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

Rose McIver

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

Cullen Hightower

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Bruce Catton

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.