Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Carson

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Fay Wray

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

Dan Quisenberry

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Rudyard Kipling

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Richard Branson

Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

George Goncalves

The Empire State report was strong ... and the selling pressures stayed there.

Nostradamus

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Vanessa Paradis

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Cheryl Cole

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Charlie Kaufman

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

Val McDermid

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

Tommy Caldwell

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Victor LaValle

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Bruce Jackson

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Faran Tahir

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Kelly Overton

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

James F. Amos

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Walter Kirn

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Edward Gramlich

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

Ranbir Kapoor

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

Colin Wilson

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Halle Berry

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

Ann Voskamp

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Andrei Codrescu

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

Mike Elliott

Yeah, but it's not as romantic or as theatrical as that. It's very low-key.

Allison Williams

I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.

Tony Benn

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Oscar Isaac

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.