Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Ruben Blades

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Bjork

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Frank Quattrone

Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

James T. Walsh

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

Austin O'Malley

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

Ford Frick

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Evel Knievel

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

Tony Scott

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Benedict Wong

Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'

Troye Sivan

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I'll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

Eduardo Paes

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

Billy West

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

David Bailey

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

Gene Simmons

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

Steven Van Zandt

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Ray Manzarek

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

Lawrence Timmons

Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.

Andrei Codrescu

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.

Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

Liu Wen

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

Oliver E. Williamson

Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.

Charlie Pierce

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

James Garner

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

Burt Shavitz

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Trish Stratus

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

Sean Parker

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

Terry Wogan

Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!

Anne Robinson

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

Carl Levin

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

Mira Nair

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Aloe Blacc

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Latrell Sprewell

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Brian Boitano

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Pat Buchanan

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Ian Holm

Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.

Reed Hastings

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

Enrico Colantoni

School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.

Robert D. Hare

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Kary Mullis

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Bruce Beutler

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Lennart Meri

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Frederick Soddy

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Carl Lewis

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.