Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomie Harris

Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

Courtney Eaton

My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.

Edward Fitzgerald

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

Eric Zorn

We probably ate breakfast with you a couple of times and you didn't know that.

Teri Hatcher

I went to a restaurant and sat at the bar and ate by myself. I have my iPad, which is my favorite instrument of all time. I talked to a few people next to me. I'm just trying to be out. It's a little bit scary.

Leila Aboulela

When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

Bill Hader

For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

Ann Voskamp

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

Ben Shapiro

Vice President Joe Biden believes that illegal immigrants are citizens. Obama believes that some Americans who join Islamist groups are citizens, while others are not. Who is an American? Whomever the executive branch deems an American. Who isn't? It depends on whether Obama ate his Wheaties or not.

Clay Shirky

I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.

Edward Young

By night an atheist half believes in a God.

Jason Miller

The political thing to do would have been to sign this bill. Gov. Sanford always does what he believes to be in the best interest of all South Carolina regardless of any political fallout.

Chris Schultz

The police department believes it will be difficult to enforce.

Richard P. Feynman

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Cheech Marin

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

Tom Bennett

My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

Tagg Romney

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

Bill Hader

'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.

Donald Johanson

All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

C. V. Raman

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

Nikola Tesla

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Nikola Tesla

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

Henry David Thoreau

There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Randy Bachman

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

Ron Eglash

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Lawton Chiles

We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,

Evangeline Lilly

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

David Beckham

I love a nice tailored suit, but I also like to dress down. It all depends on what mood I'm in.

Donald Johanson

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Chrissie Hynde

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

Charles Platt

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.

Paul Rand

The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.

Lee Smith

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

Lauren Willig

I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.

Charles de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Angela Ahrendts

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

Rick Moranis

By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work.

Paul Blank

Today, Wal-Mart executive after Wal-Mart executive talked about the responsibility

Mike Carter

We're not under pressure to fill (Howard)'s seat. We'll take the remainder of this year to search out the next executive director.

Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

Lesli Linka Glatter

On various shows, I've been the producing-director, the executive producer-director; and if you were working with the material you love with the right group of people, it's an incredible job to be doing.

Bob Ferguson

Ultimately, we want to have the executive back in the people's building.

Jay Ritter

In terms of the executives involved, they've got every incentive to do a deal, whether it makes sense or not, because if they don't do one, they give the money back.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Nelson Mandela

Tomorrow the two groups will meet on the ship,

Shannon Wallace

We're doing this to provide residents or groups an opportunity to use tools they might not otherwise have for beautification. It's a large, 9-foot trailer that will have everything from a rake or a shovel to a hedger and a lawnmower.

Walid Jumblatt

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

C. Everett Koop

That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.

Pat Metheny

'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Raymond Kelly

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Mike Johnson

We know these particular groups have been at odds,

Mahmoud Abbas

We know there are some groups that want to harm us.

Robin Cook

We are looking for a strong declaration that there must be a return to the rule of law and an end to the illegal occupation of the farms,

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Rob Glaser

Today's news is an important step in transitioning from illegal P2P sites to legal alternatives.

Robert Forney

You didn't know it's illegal to sell this in the United States?

Richard Kite

You have three vans in one location with a significant number of illegal aliens. This was obviously a coordinated smuggling effort.

Ariel Pink

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

Rocco Buttiglione

We request ... the return of all the material that proves to have come from the illegal market,

Patricia Cornwell

I don't do things that are illegal.

Susan Peters

These are illegal and racist restrictions, and there's no reason we should perpetuate something that was outlawed many years ago, ... Having to remove it one property at a time didn't make sense to me.

Claire Forlani

I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins.

Muhammad Ali

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

Muhammad Ali

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

Caitlin Kittredge

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

Crystal Bowersox

I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.

Pete Rose

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

Kevin Reilly

We don't have any plans for Joey right now. We'll get into March and see how the schedule settles in and reassess to see where Joey can come back in.

X. J. Kennedy

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

Barbara Steele

If you need food, there are 41 pantries in St. Joe County.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Nick Logan

We did try. At this point, he will not be joining us.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Aquilino Pimentel

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees,

Greg Gazin

Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Jacques Chirac

We have been totally unanimous in our reaction and have shown solidarity, the G8 and the states that joined us for this summit,

Glenn Greenwald

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

Ben Shapiro

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

Dennis Miller

Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

Dennis Miller

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Phaedrus

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Akiva ben Joseph

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

Eric Hoffer

We can see through others only when we see through ourselves

Manoj Bhargava

Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

Mary Lambert

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Maurizio Margaglio

We are in front, and the others must do better.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Judy Leiterman

Word's getting out. It will be interesting to see how many others will be able to pull it off.

Dev Hynes

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Samuel Butler

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Ed Rendell

You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

Petrarch

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Karlie Kloss

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

Kevin Smith

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.