Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Monk Kidd

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

David Beckham

One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn't go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention,

Wynter Gordon

My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.

Wolfman Jack

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

Richard Parsons

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

Arthur Schwartz

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Chuck Granby

To win the championship you have to go through Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've been coaching 37 years and only eight times has a team outside of those boroughs won.

Tim White

We estimate that the ... remediation at our property at Third St. and Third Ave. in Brooklyn is about 75%-80% completed at this point.

Beastie Boys

We got a safe in the trunk with money in a stack With dice in the front and Brooklyn's in the back No Sleep il Brooklyn

Charles James

My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,

Louise Nurding

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

Jason Wu

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

Talisa Soto

Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp.

Britt Ekland

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

Brian Molko

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Bridget Diary

She smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother!

Diane von Furstenberg

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

Diane von Furstenberg

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!

Denis Leary

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Leslie Caron

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Alanis Morissette

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Janis Joplin

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

Janis Joplin

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

Bobby Seale

When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights- whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.

Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Jane Fonda

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

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.

John Grogan

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Rep. Lawlor

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Siddharta Moersjid

Mining and milling operations have been temporarily suspended as a precautionary measure. The Indonesian authorities are working to resolve the situation in a peaceful and expeditious manner.

Christopher Shays

Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationship,

Tim Barrett

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Beth Moore

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Kathy Harper

Because they were properly restrained they had minimal injury.

Sam Wright

Freddie Edwards of The Sanctuary called and said the ministry will do what it can.

Ron Faust

The sheer volume of Vietnam veterans now is overwhelming.

Alexander Milinkevich

This is a sheer farce, this is not a real trial.

Harvey Fierstein

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

David Hockney

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Bill Hicks

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

Alexandra Paul

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.

Jane Austen

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Art Spiegelman

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

Benjamin Disraeli

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Bruce Boxleitner

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

Diane von Furstenberg

Personal style is accepting who you are.

Jewel

If someone is willing to help you understand your own worth when you're vulnerable, that's a very touching thing. It makes you want to help other people.

Colleen Segarra

When you touch the animal, all you feel is bone.

Charles Kuralt

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Charles Spurgeon

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Mark Hughes

Touch wood there has been no reaction, so we are very hopeful.

Diana DeGarmo

If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something.

Scott Peterson

She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly.

Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror.

Laura Marano

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

Coco Chanel

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

Rita Ora

Nothing comfortable is worth wearing to the Met Ball.

Paul Kuschel

I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all.

Luke Evans

A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.

Greg Ostertag

He's been wearing that thing as long as I can remember.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Peter Stringfellow

You're only as old as the woman you feel.

Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you dont consider until it hits you.

Traci Bingham

He said she was beautiful. And that he'd never been with a woman so beautiful.