Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyra Banks

I tend to hang out with my friends in Los Angeles from high school. We know each other from back in the day. They still see me as just dumb Tyra. We have a strong bond.

Mallory Ortberg

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

Nigel Dutson

Let's say you're in Los Angeles and you want to find a restaurant. You type in 'nearest restaurant' and it gives you a map online, a menu, and the number if you want a reservation.

Magic Johnson

Los Angeles was jump-started by the construction of the Staples Center.

Ryan Cartwright

Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth.

Sofia Milos

Los Angeles is such a widespread city, sometimes it's hard to see your friends, and food is a great way to get together - it's a great way of giving love.

Eli Broad

Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back.

Tony Lopez

Los Angeles is really the only place where I can go and say our houses are only $250,000, and people will get excited about that. I can't do that in Oklahoma or Texas, but I can do that in L.A.

Eli Broad

Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.

Sue Monk Kidd

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

David Beckham

One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn't go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention,

Wynter Gordon

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

Wolfman Jack

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

Richard Parsons

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

Arthur Schwartz

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Chuck Granby

To win the championship you have to go through Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've been coaching 37 years and only eight times has a team outside of those boroughs won.

Tim White

We estimate that the ... remediation at our property at Third St. and Third Ave. in Brooklyn is about 75%-80% completed at this point.

Beastie Boys

We got a safe in the trunk with money in a stack With dice in the front and Brooklyn's in the back No Sleep il Brooklyn

David Icke

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Bill Hicks

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Tom Stoppard

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line.

Kevin McCloud

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

Sathya Baba

Man falsely imagines I am doing this , I am planning this . It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Elon Musk

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Eric Brown

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

Phil Bredesen

We did not even have a 30-day notice to prepare ourselves so that we could at least have a supply of medications while we tried to figure out what to do next, ... How can you in all good consciousness tolerate this kind of a practice?

Belinda Stronach

When I made the decision to leave I could have potentially been in an election just two to three days after. Mr. Emerson campaigned as a Liberal and just a few days after the election made the decision to leave.

Terry J. Lundgren

I'm on the road two or three days a week normally.

Nancy Brown

We're looking at sheltering and feeding people for three months, ... Consequently, we will need volunteers for not only a few days or weeks, but long term. We have hundreds of deaths and thousands homeless. It's just an overwhelming situation.

Sally Hawkins

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Alice Wonderland

Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.

Thomas Powell

Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we are regretful is in controlling our thoughts in each moment.

Phil Davis

Last year we had restaurants out of food two days after the event. This year we've even heard of a group that is planning a White Squirrel wedding.

S. Hughes

Leave on time at least two days a week. If you never have any free evenings you'll grow resentful.

David Dixon

As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

Dick Durbin

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Al Goldstein

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Kevin Kwan

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Sherman Alexie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lex Luger

I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

David Walton

A lot of people talk to kids like they're idiots. When I'm telling my two-year-old that you don't throw a dish on the floor, I explain it as if they're a 25-year-old that hasn't quite figured it out yet.

David Walliams

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

David Heyman

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

David Dinkins

I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.

David Duchovny

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

David Duchovny

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

David Duchovny

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

David Brenner

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

David Brooks

We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are, where we have to market ourselves to get through life. We're in social media, where we broadcast highlight - highlight reels of our own lives on Facebook.

David Viscott

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

David Viscott

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

David Riesman

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

David Hockney

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

David Dreman

A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two factors: The probability that the investment you chose will preserve your capital over the time you intend to invest your funds. The probability the investments you select will outperform alternative investments for this period.

David Duchovny

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

David Burnett

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Arnold J. Toynbee

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

David Walliams

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

David Rosen

The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

David Rockwell

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

David Rockwell

In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Rockwell

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

David Rockefeller

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

David Rockefeller

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

David Riesman

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

David Riesman

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Michael Stipe

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Dave Walker

Peter is not recovering from (plantar fasciitis), and we need him because hes our No. 1 runner,

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Pete Townshend

Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.

Kevin Kelley

Peter does everything for us. He's probably one of the most underrated players out there.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

George Robertson

When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Mike Sanford

Leon is playing better and better every week.

Elaine Stritch

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

Nnedi Okorafor

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

David Robinson

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

David Brin

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using chiropractic very extensively in order to stay healthy and fit. I found it was better to go to a chiropractor before you get injured. We are a perfect team, the world of fitness and the world of chiropractors.

Bengie Molina

I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.

Benazir Bhutto

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

Bear Grylls

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

Barry Alvarez

Everybody has a role on the team, and some have a role as a scout team player. They have to emulate the offenses that we are going to face. Those players still have to go through the out-of-season work and they work hard.