Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Jean Bruyere

There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.

Jeff Greene

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

James Padinha

It's really just a waiting game. You can't expect excesses to be done correcting just because you want them to be done correcting.

Pat Buckley

I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Kenneth Koch

I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.

J. B. Priestley

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Chuck Schumer

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Vince Staples

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

Lauren Willig

Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.

Katrina Kaif

Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Le Corbusier

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Alan Cohen

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Walter Benjamin

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Walter Benjamin

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Banksy

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

James Keller

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

Minna Antrim

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Dogen

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.