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.

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.

David Beckham

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

Anne Sexton

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

David Beckham

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

David Byrne

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

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.

Alan Rickman

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

Leslie Robinson

We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces.

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

Bryan Singer

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

Bob Huggins

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

Mickey Hatcher

The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader.

Carlos Levorin

The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit.

Jim Owens

The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered.

Shannon Johnson

We always get together every two weeks and have dinner or lunch at our house and it's not going to be good that we can't do that now. It's going to be hard and it's going to be tough.

Earl Derr Biggers

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

Ruth Walsh

We want people to not just sit at the dinner and not be able to participate. We want people to get up and have fun.

Alan King

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

Charles Lamb

Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Nate Corddry

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.

Ronnie Vannucci

We're just looking forward to getting home, but it's not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can't wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

Michael Drake

There are people who for years got together and had dinner parties who don't talk to each other anymore, ... All over how to handle our wastewater problem.

Nick Russo

We want to preserve and protect Mississippi's rich architectural and archaeological heritage as communities restore and rebuild.

David Wong

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical,

Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Brian Sandoval

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Abdus Salam

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Abdus Salam

Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

Catherine Ponder

When you realize that prosperity is your divine heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Anthony Kennedy

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Alice Temperley

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Wendy Taylor

The other people in the museum at the time were very respectful. No one approached them on their own.

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Antony Gormley

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

Diego Maradona

Pele should go back to the museum.

Bill McKibben

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Bill Maher

New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

Billy Crystal

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Brad Pitt

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Daniel Handler

Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.

Charles Caleb Colton

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Alan Paton

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Alan Moore

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

Alan Guth

Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

Alan Bullock

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

Al Ries

Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.

Al Sharpton

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Al Jarreau

Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Eric Haslett

For Sarah to be able to have the time she did was wonderful.

Cheryl Tweedy

I don't think I can have Sarah now. But the other girls, yeah, definitely.

Noam Chomsky

I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.

Elisabeth Rohm

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.

Adam McKay

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Roman Gutierrez

We still saw some of our inexperience today. That will be the case, but there were still some steps of improvement.

Bo Burnham

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Audrey Meadows

Fans always ask, What did the bedroom look like? All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Deborah Harkness

You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.

Dennis Hopper

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Dickens

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Alan Jay Lerner

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Ron Wood

Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Carine Roitfeld

When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.

Frederick Pollock

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

Michael Kors

I am the oldest young designer in New York City.

Ira Glass

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Samira Wiley

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

Ringo Starr

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.