Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Virginia Postrel

The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a forgettable green plastic box.

Vikram Seth

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

Yani Tseng

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

Yehuda Berg

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

Chita Rivera

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

Preity Zinta

I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.

Patti Stanger

When a man gets cheated on, I'm like, 'Meh, he'll find somebody else.' When a woman gets cheated on, that's a deep wound. I think when a man is widowed, like Liam Neeson, I think that has more of an effect - you had a great love and the universe took her.

Mary Tyler Moore

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

Karl G. Maeser

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

Banksy

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Ian Rosenberger

Yeah, I did lie and cheat and steal my way through this, but that's 'Survivor,'

Karan Johar

Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

Diane Lane

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Morris Dees

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.

Elizabeth Warren

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

David H. Murdock

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

Nick Nolte

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

Pete Townshend

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

Adrian McKinty

I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

Bob Newhart

Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.

Mike Nichols

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Wole Soyinka

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Louis Freeh

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

C. J. Mahaney

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

Nick Saban

I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?

Lewis Thomas

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.

Hans Blix

What we have said we need all the time is the presentation of more evidence -- that they have not been taking the questions seriously which were posed in the report with which they are familiar, and we would like to have responses to those questions,

John Gorman

We had no evidence to support the use of drugs.

Bjarke Ingels

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Barry Scheck

There are other people in prison in the state of Texas...convicted of arson with the same kind of evidence in play.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

debbie nicholson

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Estelle

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Erwin McManus

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Tom Shaheen

We're not going to induce people to play. We're not going to promise financial gain by playing the lottery.

Pico Iyer

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Jim Hill

We need help from this body. We need someone to relieve the huge financial burden.

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the PBGC is not improving,

Bradley Belt

Unfortunately, the financial health of the P.B.G.C. is not improving.

Ian Reid

We are saying to the financial institution: we will give you about $25 million every year for the period of the loan and that's really how we plan to repay it.

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Fareed Zakaria

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Brooke Shields

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Carly Fiorina

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Charlie Brown

We still have a ways to go, but this says a lot about our kids.

Fred Ray

This says a lot for our offense. We can make plays. We just need to keep it going.

Patrick Chappatte

You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Shirley MacLaine

because he says what he actually would do. But he's got no chance.

Bill Bailey

Two solipsists walk into a bar, and one says to the other...

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

will.i.am

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Bikram Choudhury

Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

V. S. Naipaul

At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

Eric Betzig

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

Nick Park

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Ansel Elgort

I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Frederic William Farrar

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

David F. Houston

We are investigating the circumstances under which the statements were made.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Miley Cyrus

I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it

Eric Maskin

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

Yuuki Sakurai

I'm speechless. What can you say when you can't trust a company's statements or the exchange's trading system.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Christina Aguilera

Power is making a statement about who you are.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Samuel Butler

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Glenn Beck

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.