Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Roker

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We live in homes with mirrors.

Mary Karr

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.

Cyril Cusack

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Aldo Leopold

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Colleen Atwood

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

Ray Lewis

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

Mike Huckabee

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.

Mario Lemieux

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

Lewis Black

One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.

Steven Millhauser

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Patrick Swayze

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

David Allan Coe

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Aubrey O'Day

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

Hope Solo

One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they're on your side, you're doing something right.

William Graham Sumner

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

Monica Raymund

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Eddie Trunk

One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.

Jon Voight

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

Erma Bombeck

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Ella Maillart

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Harold Pinter

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Earl Wilson

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Stella Adler

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Dennis Hastert

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Frank Rich

One would like to say in the aftermath of the 2008 election that everyone lived happily ever after. But the American drama, especially when it involves race, is always more complicated than that.

Gary Neville

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Tim Heidecker

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

Tabitha Soren

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

George W. Bush

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

Hannah Arendt

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.

Angelina Grimke

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation

Fritz Todt

Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper.

Harry Houdini

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Fede Alvarez

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

Kristina McMorris

Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.

George Ade

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature

Abraham Cahan

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Katharine Hepburn

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Mariella Frostrup

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Emma Goldman

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

Danica Patrick

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

Ellen Willis

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Robert C. Solomon

On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

Eric Cantona

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.