The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 143)

We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all wrong things and if you question them, they would say - why don't you change the government next time? But that would be five years later. What do I do right now? I am suffering right now.

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Doing politics over water is not good as people from Punjab and Haryana are also our own like that of Delhi. Everyone should get water.

My children feel proud of me. Since their father is honest, they have nothing to be ashamed about.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Television is increasingly seen as 'infotainment,' not a credible source of information.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

The best thing about having four big brothers is you always have someone to do something for you.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

There's someone to turn to.

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

I really love 'The Thing.'

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world, and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview.

Human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment.

Why did the rooster go to KFC?
He wanted to see a chicken strip.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Basically, I guess they just thinking I've been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I've been winning my fights on heart.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

I'm a songwriter first.

Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act.

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

For myself, for a long time... maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn't worth hearing, and I think everyone's voice is worth hearing. So if you've got something to say, say it from the rooftops.

You've really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can't get ready because there's no telling. They'll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.

I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I've been working them hips really good.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I'm not a mixed martial artist, I'm a brawler.

I think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I'm on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I'm not, really.

Every villian is a hero in his own mind.