My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

- Rufus Sewell

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

- Edward Sapir

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

- Joan Lunden

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

- Mike Judge

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

- Denise Mina

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

- Jason Bateman

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

- Steve Forbes

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.

- Christopher Isherwood

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

- Eliza Dushku

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

- Cliff Richard

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

- Rob Zombie

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

- Adriana Lima

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

- Lita Ford

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

- Michael Clarke Duncan

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

- Teri Garr

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

- Christian Louboutin

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

- Jack Dee

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

- Candace Bushnell

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

- Jack Dee

There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

- Jack Dee

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

- Anne Hathaway