Famous Quotes By Catherine Deneuve

 

1. A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
2. Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.
3. All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
4. Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
5. Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.
6. Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
7. I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
8. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
9. I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
10. I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
11. I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
12. I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
13. I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
14. I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.
15. I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
16. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
17. I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
18. It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
19. It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
20. Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
21. Marriage is obsolete and a trap.
22. Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
23. That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
24. There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Famous Quotes By Mario Batali

 

1. Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
2. Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
3. As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
4. As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
5. Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
6. Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
7. Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
8. Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
9. I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
10. I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.
11. In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
12. My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
13. My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
14. Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
15. The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
16. The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
17. The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
18. There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
19. Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
20. We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
21. When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
22. When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

Famous Quotes By Tori Spelling

 

1. I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.
2. I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!
3. I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.
4. I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
5. I need to work to support my family.
6. I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.
7. I want to be a cool mom.
8. I want to be a loving mom.
9. I want to be a mom who listens.
10. I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
11. I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.
12. I'm all for same-sex marriage.
13. I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.
14. It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'
15. It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
16. Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.
17. Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.
18. There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.
19. We are a very crafty family.
20. Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.
21. You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

Famous Quotes By Katharine Hepburn

 

1. Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
2. As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
3. Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
4. Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
5. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
6. I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
7. If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
8. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
9. It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
10. It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
11. Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
12. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
13. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
14. Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
15. My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
16. Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
17. Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
18. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
19. To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
20. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
21. When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Famous Quotes By Jane Campion

 

1. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
2. As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
3. But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
4. But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
5. I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
6. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
7. I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
8. I think I made good movies.
9. I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
10. I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
11. It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
12. My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
13. Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
14. Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
15. You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

Famous Quotes By Orson Welles

 

1. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
2. A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
3. Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
4. Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
5. I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
6. I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
7. I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
8. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
9. I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
10. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
11. If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
12. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
13. Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
14. Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
15. Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
16. Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
17. Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
18. The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
19. The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
20. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
21. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Famous Quotes By Pat Robertson

 

1. Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
2. And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
3. Anything's possible in politics.
4. But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
5. Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
6. Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
7. God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there.
8. I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
9. If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
10. I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
11. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
12. Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
13. It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
14. Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
15. The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
16. The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback.
17. The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
18. There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
19. There's no question that jihad historically means war.
20. Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

Famous Quotes By Jean Paul

 

1. Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
2. As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
3. Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
4. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
5. Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
6. Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
7. For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
8. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
9. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
10. Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
11. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
12. Live your life and forget your age.
13. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
14. Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
15. Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
16. Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
17. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
18. Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
19. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
20. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
21. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
22. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
23. Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Famous Quotes By Ben Stein

 

1. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
2. Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
3. I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
4. I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
5. I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
6. If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
7. If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
8. If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
9. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
10. It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
11. Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
12. Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
13. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
14. The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
15. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
16. Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

Famous Quotes By Maya Lin

 

1. Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
2. Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
3. How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
4. I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
5. I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
6. I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
7. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
8. I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
9. I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
10. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
11. If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
12. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
13. It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
14. It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
15. My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
16. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
17. The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
18. The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
19. The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
20. The role of art in society differs for every artist.
21. To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
22. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
23. When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
24. When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
25. You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

Famous Quotes By John Updike

 

1. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
2. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
3. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
4. Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
5. Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
6. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
7. Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
8. Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
9. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
10. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
11. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
12. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
13. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
14. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
15. That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
16. The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
17. The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
18. The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
19. The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
20. Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
21. We are most alive when we're in love.
22. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
23. Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
24. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Famous Quotes By Mitch Hedberg

 

1. A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
2. All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
3. Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
4. Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
5. I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
6. I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
7. I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
8. I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
9. I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.
10. I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
11. I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
12. I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
13. I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
14. I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
15. If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
16. I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
17. I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
18. Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
19. My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
20. Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
21. The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
22. This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
23. Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
24. Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

Famous Quotes By Jack Nicholson

 

1. A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
2. Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
3. Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
4. Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
5. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
6. Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
7. I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
8. I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
9. I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
10. I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
11. I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
12. If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
13. I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
14. I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
15. I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
16. It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
17. The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
18. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
19. There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
20. We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
21. Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
22. When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Famous Quotes By John Sununu

 

1. Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment?
2. Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
3. Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.
4. Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
5. For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
6. Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
7. I understand the process of politics and the game of television.
8. It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.
9. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
10. The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
11. The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
12. The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
13. This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
14. We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
15. When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

Famous Quotes By Michael Jackson

 

1. And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
2. Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
3. Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
4. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
5. I just wish I could understand my father.
6. I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
7. I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
8. Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
9. People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
10. The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
11. The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
12. The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
13. There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
14. Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
15. When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.