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Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Kin Hubbard
Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.(Attributed to Mike Jones) -- Steven Levy
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. -- Marie Antoinette
When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change. -- Michael Sheen
I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity. -- Greg Graffin
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. -- John Barth
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. -- Marie Curie
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. -- Thomas Szasz
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. -- Charles Babbage
The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization. -- John Olver
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. -- Agnes Smedley
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact. -- Emile Durkheim
Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. -- Camille Paglia
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. -- Garson Kanin
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy. -- Mike Ditka
Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress. -- Mike Ditka
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women. -- Tawakkol Karman
I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. -- Pedro Almodovar
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while. -- Randy Harrison
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans. -- Cameron Russell
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. -- Mary Schmich
It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great. -- Tina Fey
We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe. -- Adam Riess
The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. -- Tina Brown
I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batman or Superman. Because all three of these guys are really iconic figures, and yes, Da Vinci was historical, but there's clearly been a lot of mythmaking about him, and a lot of things have been attributed to him that may or may not have happened. -- David S. Goyer
Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say, 'Yeah, yeah, just tell me: is it good for you or bad for you?' Consequently, I think, I was always afraid to indulge in the time that you need to tell a joke, very nervous about anything that constituted an Act II. -- Patricia Marx
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed) -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. -- Gunter Brus
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos -- John Warren Kindt
Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance. -- Penn Jillette
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity. -- James A. Owen
The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me. -- Morgan Freeman
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) -- William Shakespeare
The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine -- Cassandra Clare
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. -- Roman Jakobson
The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training. -- Peter Heather
In New York City, one suicide in ten is attributed to a lack of storage space. -- Judith Stone
The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone. -- John F. Kennedy
Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice? -- Gordon R. Dickson
A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in my own work, could be attributed to testimonies. -- Raul Hilberg
Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air. -- Will Cuppy
Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group. -- Chester W. Nimitz
I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad. -- Marjane Satrapi
I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. -- Josh Groban
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline! -- Rudolph Valentino
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris. -- Coco Chanel
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. -- Warren Buffett
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry) -- Francis Chan
I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote. -- Andy Cohen
I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals. -- Andrew Linzey
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. -- Benjamin Haydon
Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another. -- Corita Kent
Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others. -- Denis Waitley
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since. -- Janet Evanovich
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me. -- Thomas Sowell
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate. -- Hugh Mackay
Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said." -- Yogi Berra
President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. -- Ben Shapiro
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant. -- John Calvin
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. -- James F. Cooper
Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state. -- Adolf Hitler
Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded. -- Will Rogers
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions -- Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them. -- Elaine Pagels
The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name. -- Mahatma Gandhi
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste. -- Norbert Wiener
Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler. -- Dennis Lindley
Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false. -- Paul Crouch
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false." -- Paul Crouch
Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wherever the individual does not mind forfeiting the option, for some sense of control. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) -- Steven Pinker
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative. -- Laurie Graham
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed. -- Thomas Merton
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. -- Bill Gates
Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel. -- John Owen
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath. -- B. F. Skinner
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way. -- Robert H. Schuller
Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend. -- Brett Morgen
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' -- Albert Schweitzer
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade. -- Jo Ann Emerson
Sometimes my success is attributed to my height (which is 7'2"), which I won't deny does help to an extent. But honestly, the rest comes from a healthy mix of workout and practice everyday. -- Satnam Singh Bhamara
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance. -- Chinua Achebe
Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story. -- Vincent Piazza
I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate. -- Ilona Andrews
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you. -- Nigel Rees
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. -- Tom Peters
Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other. -- Xenophanes
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status. -- John Dewey

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