Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Van Morrison

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

William Henry Bragg

When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.

Yani Tseng

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

Clay Shirky

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

John Remington

The pilots would argue they're free to strike, and the airline would argue they legally couldn't. It's unclear. But the pilots are satisfied they could legally strike. And if they can't, they may do it anyway.

Niki Lauda

The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.

Michael Kelley

The Pentagon team, led by General Jeffrey Kohler, along with representatives from the US Air Force, the US Navy, Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, will meet with top members of the ministry of defense.

John Moody

The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.

Bill Hader

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

David Friedman

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.

Patrick Stewart

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

Steve Largent

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

Trent Reznor

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

Tony Fernandes

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.

Ansel Elgort

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

Katherine Boo

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

Kathleen Hanna

I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Cobi Jones

We are still confident as a team that we will make it through to the final Cup qualifying round.

Susan Stewart

We played a good second half, but we let them score in the final 30 seconds, so we'll have to work on that.

Tyler Hilton

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Jonas Woods

We have made a deal, and we're working through some of the final details. We want them open ASAP.

Dennis Perry

What you see on TV is usually the final table, and things are different there,

Joseph Butler

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Wayne Rooney

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Viswanathan Anand

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Age Hareide

The points mattered more than anything tonight. The results in the other games went our way, and now we can travel to Belarus knowing that we are in the play-offs. I hope our luck continues.

Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

Mark Fox

We played well in spurts and didn't play well at times. Often games in March aren't pretty, but we were able to find a way to win.

Brad Fuller

We played well and showed up. We had 13 hits, which is probably more than we've had in the last three games combined. We got a good game from Heath and that's a lot on his shoulders as young as he is.

Chris Lorditch

We play some good games outside of the division. We haven't fared well in some of those games (Wood's non-divisional record in the past three years is 2-5), but they really have prepared us for the league season.

Venus Williams

We played all kinds of games like bobbing for apples, ... I don't get to do that, it was amazing. I took it so seriously.

Pam Player

We played a better first half. I was trying to keep them pumped up and keep them focused. We've got to make sure we win all the games all the way out. In order to do that, we've got to keep our heads on our shoulders.

Edward Coke

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Shayne Ward

My maxim is that no one's ever made it. I haven't and that's why I work my hardest.

Dick Cheney

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

Amity Shlaes

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Oscar Isaac

Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.

John Spratt

We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.

Daniele Audetto

We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.

Fausto Bertinotti

We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty.

Doug Duncan

If you're stretched to the max to be able to make the interest-only payments, the question is: What are you going to do when the principal comes due?

Zac Efron

The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

Yann Martel

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Ellen Key

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Everett Dirksen

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Samuel Butler

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Clemence Poesy

I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it.

Nicki Minaj

I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Pharrell Williams

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rafael Nadal

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

Dallas Roberts

I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

Paul Weller

Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.

Trent Reznor

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

Alexa Vega

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

Alexander Payne

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Stephanie March

We did well in the first half, but it's about the end product, ... We're playing together as a team.