Words matter. These are the best Quote Quotes from famous people such as Cameron Monaghan, Aaron Sorkin, Eric Massa, Megan Phelps-Roper, Angie Harmon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I can quote every single line in ‘The Big Lebowski’ from start to finish. That’s what happens when you see a movie two dozen times.
When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points – ‘Make sure you stay away from this,’ and ‘Don’t say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,’ and that kind of thing.
My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not – that I didn’t not have a future.
Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of ‘love thy neighbor’ is to rebuke your neighbor when you see him sinning. And if you don’t do that, then you hate your neighbor in your heart.
After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, ‘You’ve got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.’ I was like, ‘Why?’ He was like, ‘Because you’re a Republican.’ I was like, ‘I’m sorry who’s stereotyping who?’
So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that’s fine because I’m making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote ‘Virgin Mary,’ but no Catholicism.
You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he’ll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he’s coming from because he says rappers can’t act.
There are people who are bound journalistically to a code of ethics that means they can’t quote something that isn’t sourced, whereas what I do is entirely unsourced. I effectively fictionalise history and yet somehow aim at a greater truth.
It’s embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.
The interviews have gotten much longer with ‘Humans of New York.’ When I was first starting, I was just photographing people. And then I went to just kind of including a quote or two. Now when I’m approaching somebody on the street, I’m spending about 30 to 45 minutes with them often.
I don’t talk, I quote. I can’t help it. It’s better to be quotable than honest.
I can’t quote stats from another decade. I’ve got friends that can do that. But I am a huge sports fan. In fact, I enjoy all sports, and when I enjoy a game for five minutes, I’m in it for the whole thing. Plus, I do have some teams I loyally follow.
I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.
I look at the quarterback and the receivers. You look at the quarterback, the formation. I focus on the passing game and react on the running game. You look at it over and over, then sooner or later, it becomes like a movie. You ever notice how you quote movies? That’s all film watching is.
I cannot speak for Jesus, but I can quote his teachings, and he said, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’… How would he react to me playing Jesus? He wouldn’t judge it. He wouldn’t judge his own enemy… Playing this part highlights his teaching in a very nice way.
There’s an African proverb that I always quote as I think it’s incredible which is, ‘if the children are not initiated into the village, then they’ll burn it down just to feel its warmth.’
One of my favorite comedies is ‘Three Amigos!’ Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It’s like the Anne Frank quote: ‘In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.’ Given what happened to her, it’s one of the miracles of the world that she said that.
I am old enough to think the word ‘journalist’ is not all that noble a designation. Journalist – that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases – was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer – once the ambition of every journalist – was to be the greater truth teller.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, ‘won.’
I think that probably the – I don’t give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn’t have had my quote opening day.
My parents wanted me to protect myself and have something to fall back on. I even remember reading a quote from Razor Ramon in WWF magazine where he talked about the importance of getting an education if you wanted to pursue a career in pro wrestling.
In other places, especially in Boston, it’s like a place where comedy gestates. People come out of there that are fantastic, but you have to come to New York or L.A. to quote unquote ‘make it.’
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
The quote that helped me the most with my life was: It only gets better when you get better. That woke me up.
You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what’s his favorite composition? And I say, I haven’t written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
I don’t think I live the lifestyle that’s expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I’m just not that dude.
I’ve always lived by a quote, ‘Your talent will make room for you.’ Whatever it is in life. I don’t care who you are. If you get an opportunity, your talent will make room for you.
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I’ll even quote. I don’t do tributes to cinema.
I never said, ‘Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.’ That was a completely made-up quote.
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
Lazy journalists, they’ll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I’ll say a similar thing; it’s very tiresome.
I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.
Not Going Out’ is a pretty neutral sitcom – to quote the ‘Seinfeld’ thing, it’s not really about anything.
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God – and I hope you’ll quote me on that.
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you’re mixed, more often than not you’re quote unquote white. So if you’re mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
If I would use anything from ‘The Little Prince,’ even some little quote, it’s all copyrighted in France. Like Walt Disney in this country, it’s a national treasure.
I couldn’t buy my way – I had to work my way. What a great quote: ‘I couldn’t buy my way into success, I had to work my way into success.’
Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor – they’re only complaining because they got caught.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn’t. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
In the fast-changing, information-filled world of the Internet, you never know what you might find. Maybe you’ll discover a great price on an airline ticket, or maybe you’ll come across that quote you’ve been racking your brain for.
When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.
Bob Hope said: ‘You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.’ And while this quote is generally amusing, it is even more amusing when you know he said that when he was old.
It started with ‘A League of Their Own.’ I mean, to me, if you played softball or baseball as a girl growing up, that is the staple movie, like, where girls are portrayed as athletes, and real, like, different, from Madonna, you know, to Geena Davis. I mean, I could quote that movie, every single line.
Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, ‘hits.’ What’s commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can’t break in.
What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, ‘Let’s just grab money from, quote, the wealthy’… The issue is the tax code’s rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.