Statement Quotes

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.
Rick Kaplan

Act, Almost, Tie

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
Paracelsus

Nature, Distress, Tested

It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together. No. We're in Hollywood trying to be competitive, and get numbers, have our eyes on the Nielsens and things like that.
Mindy Kaling

Love, Woman, Together

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.
Roy H. Williams

Matter, Often, Heard

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.
Terry Bradshaw

Real, Talk, Against

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
Michael Moore

Powerful, Political, Enough

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
J. G. Ballard

Change, Great, Political

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards

Truth, Elements, Falsehood

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
Flip Wilson

Life, Self, Why

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Enough, Moral, Individual

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.
Cynthia Nixon

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.
James Caan

Work, Passion, Lost

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
Vera Farmiga

God, Personal, Felt

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.
Alice Cooper

Mind, Big, Whatever

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.
Thomas Perry

Time, Fun, Character

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul

Death, Nothing, Exceptions

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
George Foreman

Good, Big, Makes

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
George Foreman

Life, Age, Hope

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
Javier Bardem

Car, Political, Control

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
Eric Cantor

Islam, Political, Away

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'
Carmen Electra

Sexy, Someone, Makes

I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
Emma Roberts

Movies, Free, Afraid

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
Dave Matthews

Hope, Political, Sing

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
Mike Mills

Life, History, Someone

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
Marlee Matlin

Today, Aids, Hearing

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan

Fashion, Cruelty

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Lucinda Williams

God, Trying, Making

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.
James Hillman

Life, Time, Good

It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.
Mika

Men, Hate, Hard

The day of the press statement has gone.
Elizabeth Hurley

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