Famous Quotes By Hedy Lamarr

 

1. A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
2. American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
3. Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
4. Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
5. Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
6. Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
7. I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
8. I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
9. I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
10. I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
11. I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
12. I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
13. I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
14. I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
15. I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
16. If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
17. It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
18. It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
19. I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
20. Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
21. My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
22. One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
23. Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
24. Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
25. The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
26. The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Famous Quotes By J. C. Watts

 

1. Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
2. Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
3. I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
4. I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
5. I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
6. I never got into politics for it to be a career.
7. I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
8. I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
9. In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
10. In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
11. In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
12. Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
13. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
14. My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
15. Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
16. The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
17. The strength of America is not in Washington.
18. There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
19. We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Famous Quotes By John Mayer

 

1. A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
2. Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
3. Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
4. Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
5. Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
6. I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
7. I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.
8. I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.
9. I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
10. I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
11. If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
12. I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
13. I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.
14. I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.
15. It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
16. It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
17. I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
18. I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.
19. Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.
20. Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
21. Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
22. My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
23. Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.
24. There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
25. There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
26. Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
27. You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
28. You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Famous Quotes By Emeril Lagasse

 

1. Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
2. Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
3. I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
4. I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.
5. I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
6. I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
7. If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.
8. I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.
9. Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
10. Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
11. My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
12. My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.
13. My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
14. Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.
15. The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.
16. Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?
17. We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
18. You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.
19. You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?
20. You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

Famous Quotes By Rodney Dangerfield

 

1. A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
2. Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
3. At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
4. I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
5. I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
6. I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
7. I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
8. I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
9. I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
10. I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
11. I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
12. I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
13. I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
14. I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
15. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
16. It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
17. Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
18. My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
19. My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
20. My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
21. My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
22. My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
23. This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
24. We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
25. What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
26. When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
27. With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
28. Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

Famous Quotes By Scott Adams

 

1. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
2. Home is pretty utopian.
3. I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
4. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
5. In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
6. Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
7. It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
8. Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
9. Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
10. Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
11. Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.
12. Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
13. Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
14. Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
15. The best things in life are silly.
16. The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
17. The only risk of failure is promotion.
18. There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
19. We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
20. When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
21. Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
22. Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

Famous Quotes By Marshall McLuhan

 

1. A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
2. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
3. Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
4. Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
5. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
6. Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
7. Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
8. Art is anything you can get away with.
9. As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
10. Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
11. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
12. Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
13. I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
14. If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
15. In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
16. It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
17. Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
18. Money is a poor man's credit card.
19. Money is just the poor man's credit card.
20. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
21. Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
22. Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
23. Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
24. The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
25. The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
26. The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
27. The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
28. There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
29. We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Famous Quotes By Marilyn Manson

 

1. Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
2. As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.
3. I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
4. I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.
5. I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
6. I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
7. I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
8. If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.
9. Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
10. Marriage changes everything.
11. Music is the strongest form of magic.
12. My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
13. My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
14. My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
15. Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.
16. The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
17. The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.
18. There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
19. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
20. What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
21. When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
22. When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
23. When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Famous Quotes By A. N. Wilson

 

1. Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
2. Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
3. I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
4. I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
5. I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
6. I had lost faith in biography.
7. I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
8. I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
9. I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
10. I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
11. If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
12. It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
13. Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
14. Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
15. The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
16. The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
17. The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
18. The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

Famous Quotes By Lena Dunham

 

1. All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
2. At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
3. I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
4. I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
5. I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
6. I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
7. I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
8. I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
9. I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
10. I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
11. I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
12. I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
13. I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
14. I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.
15. If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
16. I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
17. I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
18. It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
19. I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
20. My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
21. My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
22. My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
23. None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
24. There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

Famous Quotes By Tom Hanks

 

1. And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
2. At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
3. Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
4. From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.
5. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
6. If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.
7. It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
8. It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.
9. I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
10. Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
11. My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
12. My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
13. No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
14. Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.
15. That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
16. The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
17. The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
18. The year I was born,1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
19. Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
20. You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Famous Quotes By Marianne Williamson

 

1. As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
2. As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
3. Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
4. Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
5. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
6. God is definitely out of the closet.
7. I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
8. I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
9. In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
10. In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
11. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
12. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
13. Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
14. May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
15. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
16. Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
17. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
18. The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
19. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
20. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
21. We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
22. We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
23. You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Famous Quotes By Sandra Day O'Connor

Famous Quotes By Carl Jung

 

1. A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
2. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
3. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
4. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
5. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
6. Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
7. If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
8. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
9. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
10. Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
11. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
12. Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
13. Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
14. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
15. The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
16. The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
17. We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
18. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
19. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
20. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
21. Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
22. Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
23. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
24. Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
25. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Famous Quotes By Maria Sharapova

 

1. A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
2. Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
3. I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
4. I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
5. I help design my own tennis clothes.
6. I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
7. I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
8. I love to collect modern art.
9. I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.
10. I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
11. I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.
12. I'd like to have a family.
13. If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
14. It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
15. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
16. I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
17. Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
18. My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
19. My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
20. No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.
21. Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
22. To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
23. When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.
24. When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
25. When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
26. Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.
27. Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.