Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolina Herrera

You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.

Joe Sacco

The people whose work I've admired are people like George Orwell and others like Michael Herr and, of course, some of Hunter S. Thompson's work.

Dan Garton

We appreciate and admire the courageous efforts of U.S. military personnel around the world to keep our country safe and strong. And we recognize the great sacrifice that their family members also make. As a result, American Airlines is pleased to extend these special offers to military members and their loved ones.

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

Randy Forbes

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Harry Belafonte

We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.

Richard Davis

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Dave Leitao

What he is doing this season, I think all of us - players, coaches and media - should really savor. He's having a season for the ages. ... We all need to sit back and admire it because it won't happen for a long time after this.

Frank Robinson

We felt like every time he took the ball he was going to go nine innings, no matter what. I really admire him for that.

Brian Monahan

We started thinking, with all these hilarious and incredibly entertaining viral videos on the Web, what if we could harness that creativity for a brand? Would it be cool or lame? This is a grand experiment to see what happens when you kind of open it to the public and don't put any parameters on it.

Hanya Yanagihara

Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

LL Cool J

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

Lexi Thompson

I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.

Meek Mill

I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that.

Nick Woodman

I come from surfing, and surfing is the worst cool-guy industry of all. I decided long ago to try and kill the cool guy.

Manny Montana

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

Mike Downey

When Flash just started, it was 'Ooh, cool, I can make things move around the screen,' and you saw a lot of this gratuitous animation.

Monica Raymund

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

China Machado

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

Katie Couric

When you thought about getting married, was there a particular dress you had in mind?

Eddie Izzard

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

Bill Murray

This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life.

Florence Paterno

We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual.

Charles Lamb

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Nellie McKay

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Kent Beck

We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

Diana Vreeland

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Alan Watts

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

David Mitchell

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

David Mitchell

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

David Kim

Our identity was bestowed upon us by God and when humanity rebelled against God, we were divorced from the source of our identity. In this vacuum, work can wrongfully become the source of our identity wreaking havoc on our lives and work. Work was never meant to carry the weight of our identity.

Alan Watts

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Cathy Guisewite

I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.

Deb Caletti

Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

Beth Moore

Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little.

Beth Moore

Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

Ariel Winter

I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

Demi Lovato

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

Diane von Furstenberg

Insecurity is a waste of time.

Brandon Boyd

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Byron Katie

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

Bill Richardson

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

Bertrand Russell

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

Steve Reynolds

We have no strategic reserves for natural gas,

Robert Brown

When he first started, it was all just natural talent. Now we have him sprinting, he's strengthening his legs, and I think he is going to reach 6-8 soon.

Chanel Iman

I'm really into natural and organic products.

John Lang

Tony is a natural leader, not only on the field, but off it. He'll have everyone's support.

Willa Cather

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Leon Askin

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

Charles Dickens

If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

Charles Dickens

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Charles Dickens

The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

Charles Dickens

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

Charles Dickens

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

Charles Dickens

Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Tad Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Trey Gowdy

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Cliff Black

We don't know what ignited it, perhaps a leak.

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

S. Walker

We wrote more tickets this week than I've ever seen on a Super Bowl.

Marc Morial

To outsiders, you are seen as a shining light. You are seen as a beacon.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

Verne Lundquist

Oh, wow! In your life, have you ever seen anything like that?

Brian Katz

Shocking. I don't know if I've seen something like that in a big game.

Keyshawn Johnson

Since I've been in the NFL, I've never seen a team go 10-6 and not make the playoffs. I've seen teams that were 9-7 and 8-8 make the playoffs. It would be mind-boggling to be 10-6 and not make the playoffs.

Roy Evans

Since I have seen him play he has been stunning. He has unbelievable pace.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Byron Katie

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Bruce Tulgan

Leverage your uniqueness.

Michael Steele

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

August Wilson

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

August Wilson

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Dennis Ross

When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Caity Lotz

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Luc Ferrari

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Denise Levertov

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Charles Dickens

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

Brian Smith

We're going to go down there, turn over every stone.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Tiffany Thornton

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Ann Brashares

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

Source Unknown

When the well's dry, they know the worth of water.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Henry S. Haskins

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Melissa Etheridge

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.