The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 144)

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due - to God.

Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

I want to live a full life - period.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

You say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a f*cking 'H' in it.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Never put a sock in a toaster.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

I'm a one-man idiot.

In the last few days the progress of the Coronavirus, especially in some countries, especially human-to-human transmission, worries us. Although the numbers outside China are still relatively small, they hold the potential for a much larger outbreak.

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

I was travelling a lot, during the release of 'Dilbar,' to various countries, and the song would be played at random places like lounges, coffee shops, streets, and I realised the song had reached levels that was beyond India.

I have danced, sung, been a part of a reality show, and the outcome is that I am a part of 'Batla House' and 'Bharat,' which is a milestone.

'Dilbar' is very close to me. It was a turning point in my career.

I don't watch cricket very much, but of course I enjoy whenever I see the sport, especially live, because of the energy in the stadium with the fans going crazy.

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again. America’s enemies are on the run, America’s fortunes are on the rise, and America’s future is blazing bright. The years of economic decay are over.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

The age of the book is almost gone.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.