FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

When you push someone's head under water for 5 minutes, they will drown. It doesn't matter if the person is a sinner or a saint. It's just a natural process. ... (Oliver Markus)

While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on ... (Anna Kendrick)

You are like everyone else," Alyosha concluded, "that is, like a great many others, only you ought not to be like everyone else, that's what." "Even if everyone is like ... (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. ... (Walter Murch)

Take bold decisions. Don't let doubts fumble decisions in your mind and make you confused over them. Pursue what you are convinced to do; else you set yourself up where ... (Israelmore Ayivor)

That it's rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are ... (Annie Dillard)

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, ... (Terence McKenna)

What do you think Amy Poehler is doing right now? ... (Georgia Clark)

Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spectators. The USIA's model of democracy and the free market is promoted as the superpower ... (Nancy Snow)

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly ... (Scott Weiland)

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted. ... (Larry David)

Watching the way he treats you made me realize that maybe I had set my sights too low. After chasing someone who didn't give me the time of day ... ... (Amy Plum)

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart. ... (Melodie Ramone)

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed ... (Charles Sturt)

Gracious Creator of the whole human race! hast thou created such a being as woman, who can trace thy wisdom in thy works, and feel that thou alone art by ... (Mary Wollstonecraft)

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - ... (Peggy Noonan)

You want to hear it? Fine. It's a simple story really, about a pretty girl who was pretty stupid. She let a man touch her because she was scared to ... (Cora Carmack)

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, ... (Jacqueline Novogratz)

A ship, like a human being, moves best when it is slightly athwart the wind, when it has to keep its sails tight and attend its course. Ships, like men, ... (James A. Michener)

I think credibility is one of those things that, if you work hard and you get it by standing in the trenches and traveling the world, people realize you're multi-faceted. ... (Hoda Kotb)

The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive ... (Edward Everett)

Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those ... (Alan Dean Foster)

I don't know any institution in this country that ... carries more influence than the church. ... (Lee Haney)

Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby. ... (Phil Daniels)

I heard a low growl and realized it was coming from my own throat. Fuck the fear and fuck the insecurities. I was worth fighting for. Every woman was worth ... (Diana Rowland)

Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me. ... (Linus Torvalds)

Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past ... Within a few centuries we are ... (Roger Revelle)

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. ... (Benjamin Disraeli)

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions. ... (Aime Cesaire)

How could he not see all the ways he'd changed my life? How could he not know- But he didn't. It was in the way he turned his head away, ... (Karen Chance)