Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donna Leon

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

Tessa Thompson

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

Tom Stoppard

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Samantha Shannon

J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.

Robert Osborne

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Malcolm McDowell

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Greg Gorbatenko

Like his father, Roberts still has family values but they're packaged in a younger and more aggressive personality. What Wall Street admires about Roberts is that he's made big acquisitions and successfully integrated those units into the company.

Jerome Charyn

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Katharine Graham

I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to her negative feelings about Washington widows and single women, whom she basically found dispensable.

David Kinkade

We always expected that Beebe would reap the benefits of his many contacts with special interests in Arkansas. He's raised a lot of money but spent an inordinate amount of money doing that, so we're quite comfortable with where we are right now.

Kerry Healey

The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

Jason Ritter

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.

Robert Sweeney

We needed a tremendous amount of manpower to get the water and the hose up to extinguish the fire,

Donald Sutherland

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Thomas Dolby

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Thomas Gibson

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

Tao Lin

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

Tom Stoppard

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

David Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

David Hume

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

Benicio Del Toro

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Arthur Schnitzler

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Benazir Bhutto

It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

Beatrix Potter

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail....

Denis Leary

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

Denis Leary

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.

Charles Kingsley

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices...

Bill Hicks

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Tom Stoppard

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

Dan Davis

We're looking at it as a major opportunity for the East Coast.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

John Key

There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that.

Gary Stern

We've said we're more data-driven. Personally I think that's fully appropriate.

Terry Richardson

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Josh Billings

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins

Gustavo Kuerten

My goal now is to be fully recovered and to be in great shape I need, at least, six weeks of intense work,

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

John Mortimer

should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.

David Walker

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

David Henry Hwang

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

David Horowitz

[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt democratic ways and to shine the light of liberty into its culture of medieval darkness is a pragmatic necessity for the future security of the civilized world. That is the reality behind the President's address. Only people in serious denial can be blind to this fact. Only liberals.

David Icke

When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.

David Hume

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.

David Hume

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

David Hume

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

David Hume

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

David Duchovny

Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.

David Vitter

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Benazir Bhutto

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Arthur Scargill

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Antony Jay

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Antony Jay

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Antony Beevor

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,

Lynn Meger

We always had the lead going into the next period. Those are the little things that make a difference.

Derek Fisher

I am and always will be a leader.

Marco Killingsworth

When I walked in the locker room (before the game) ... I could tell he was focused. He just went out there and did his thing.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Kevin Rogers

Nobody in (our) locker room condones that. Nobody does.

Russell Robinson

I don't think we're underdogs. I don't think any of the people in the locker room think we're underdogs.

Rick Byrd

I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.

DeShawn Stevenson

This stops the bleeding. Things were starting to get negative around the locker room, players were getting on each other. But we get a win like this, it relaxes us. Now, we've just got to come out and play and get the next one.

Brian Randle

We prayed for them in the locker room.

Natalie Coughlin

I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

Fendi Onobun

We won. The locker room was really jumping.

David Horowitz

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

David Hockney

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Barney Frank

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

Audre Lorde

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Audre Lorde

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Asne Seierstad

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Ben Braaten

We usually have 10 different players in every quarter.

Joe Browne

We're going with young players who want to play in Pittsburgh.

Nell Fortner

She is one of those players that is worth the price of admission.

Maria Sharapova

Most of the top players are playing, aren't they?

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Dave Rubio

She's not there yet, but the top international players are making over $200,000 a year now. It speaks well of the sport.

Lee Pipkin

She's not just going to score points. She's going to do everything. Considering all the stuff she does for us, I think she's one of the better players in the state.

David Icke

When we give our minds and our responsibility away, we give our lives away. If enough of us do it, we give the world away and that is precisely what we have been doing throughout known human history. This is why the few have always controlled the masses.

David Duchovny

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

Ben Vereen

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

Barney Frank

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Audrey Tautou

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Audre Lorde

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

Audre Lorde

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Aslan Maskhadov

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Larry Beinfest

We're concerned, ... We want to make sure we have the infield covered.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Abby Wambach

I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.

Rick Adelman

We're just trying to make sure somebody's on him all the time.

John Small

She didn't do the crime, but she sure can do the thyme!

Pat Bowlen

So I'm not sure what we'll do in Orlando, but I know now we can get down to some other things.

David Twohy

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

David Riesman

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

David Riesman

A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).

David Icke

The Hindu faith and the information for its sacred books, the Vedas, were taken to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans from the Caucasus Mountains, one of the centers for extraterrestrials/inner terrestrials and their offspring.

David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

David Hockney

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

David Hume

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

David Hume

I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.

Benazir Bhutto

It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

David Hilbert

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

David Hume

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

David Hume

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

Audrey Tautou

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Antonin Artaud

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Dee Hock

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

David Walker

Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.

David Robertson

Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards.

David Horowitz

Politics is about winning. If you don?t win, you don?t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.

Benicio Del Toro

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.