Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Smith

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

William E. Gladstone

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Israel Zangwill

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Roman Jakobson

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Kevin Eubanks

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Lynn Flewelling

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

Allan Houston

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

James Agee

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

Lewis Grizzard

Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.

Daniel Craig

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

Kathie Lee Gifford

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Larry Niven

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

Lloyd Alexander

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Sister Souljah

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

Norman Douglas

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Frank Gaffney

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

Marquis de Sade

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Harvey Keitel

She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.

Arnold Rothstein

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

Nick Lachey

She knows I'm her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody.

Haile Gebrselassie

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Janis Ian

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Ben Elliot

Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.

Ellen Gustafson

Once you start thinking about where your products come from and what they 'do,' that's going to be an inherent part of your choice as you purchase products throughout your life.

Caity Lotz

On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.

Thomas Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Rene Descartes

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Robert McNamara

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

Athanasius

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

Graham Nash

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

Nathalie Sarraute

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Edith Stein

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Lena Headey

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.

Zayn Malik

One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

Christopher Columbus

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Jack Paar

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

Ashley Montagu

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Alana Stewart

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

Damien Chazelle

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

Rick Yancey

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

Drew Houston

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Anne Graham Lotz

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Chuck Todd

One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s.

Neil Young

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Vijay Mallya

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

Naturi Naughton

One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

Carson Kressley

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.