Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carroll O'Connor

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Suzy Parker

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Raymond Chandler

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Frank Deford

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

Fritz Weaver

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

Ashley Olsen

She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.

Steve Nash

Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.

Josh Hutcherson

Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Paul Anka

Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Prince Harry

Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it's like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it.

Willie Nelson

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Tyler Hamilton

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

Maynard James Keenan

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Alexander Osterwalder

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

Marc Andreessen

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

The Weeknd

Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Ted Shackelford

On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.

Alan Shearer

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

E. M. Forster

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

John Hoeven

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.

Kapil Sharma

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

Gioachino Rossini

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Peter L. Berger

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

Gabourey Sidibe

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

Ted Lyons

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

Daniel Inouye

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

Robert Graves

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

Philip Wylie

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Thomas Heatherwick

One great building does not make a great city.

Wole Soyinka

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.

Scott Ritter

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

Ian Mcewan

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Michio Kaku

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.

Luis Walter Alvarez

One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

Dhani Harrison

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Aaron McGruder

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

Richard Rohr

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

Joan of Arc

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Knute Rockne

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Dan Savage

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Ed Belfour

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Simon Kinberg

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

Thylias Moss

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Georg Groddeck

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

Yuri Andropov

One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.

Frank Stallone

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

Merlin Olsen

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.