Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

Enya

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Erin McKean

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

Azim Premji

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.

Walter Isaacson

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

John Bailey

My instinct is that it is deeply learned sitting at the table listening to one's parents. Police are there to be avoided.

Edgar Winter

My favorite songs are those that are most deeply personal and emotional for me, and they include the love songs that I've written for Monique.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

David Viscott

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Audrey Tautou

I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.

Audre Lorde

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

Arthur Penn

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

Antony Starr

When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.

Diana Ossana

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Alain de Botton

Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets felt psychologically necessary and rewarding, where respect was dependent on baroque displays. Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It is the legacy of those who have felt pressured by the disdain of others to add an extraordinary amount to their bare selves in order to signal that they too may lay a claim to love.

Bill James

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Kevin Spacey

Lester goes through not only a spiritual and emotional reawakening, but he gets pumped up, ... I had to work with a trainer for about four months and then every day on the set, twice a day.

W. Hull

Mandy... that's my favorite song of all time. Man, oh, man.

Ted Ligety

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

Landon Liboiron

I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

Libba Bray

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Kathryn Newton

I loved 'Paranormal Activity.' It was one of my favorites before. It was a tradition; my friends and I went every year.

Lykke Li

I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.

Tom Watson

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.

Anna Kendrick

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Talisa Soto

I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

Octavio Paz

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Twyla Tharp

Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Mickey Arthur

We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Jim Fowler

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Dan Landon

Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.

Jonathan Cherry

She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.

Luis Aragones

But all the players who have not been included know that they can return to the side if they prove themselves on the pitch.

David Viscott

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Walliams

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

David Horowitz

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

David Icke

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

David Hockney

I love California; everything is so artificial.

David Hockney

Faces are the most interesting things we see

David Hume

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.

David Duchovny

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

Beatrix Potter

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Arnold Newman

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

Diego Boneta

Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.

Alan Coren

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Alexis Carrel

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Arthur Miller

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

Arthur Ashe

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Ben Gazzara

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

AJ Case

I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night.

Vince Neil

If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Anna Chlumsky

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Eric Schmidt

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Ludivine Sagnier

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Lisa Cholodenko

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

James Gray

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Lyle Lovett

I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Allen Tate

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Aamir Khan

Education is education, be it verbal or written.