Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evangeline Lilly

I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Paul Johnson

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Richard Shim

The PC industry is quickly becoming commoditized as prices come down and penetration rates go up. ... But there are certain segments where folks can still make a lot of money.

Bruce Coville

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

Bruce Coville

I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.

Bel Powley

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

David Hanson

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

William Gibson

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

William Gibson

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

Ariel Sharon

The past year was complex and difficult, ... I hope that next year will be a year of uniting the ranks.

Daniel Kahneman

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Tony Tan

How could I remain a spectator while Singapore faces such complex challenges? How could I not step forward when I know I have more to contribute to the country we all worked to build?

Alex Tabarrok

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Tasneem Aslam

We are dealing with a complex issue and expectations are high to move quickly but it is unfortunate that this is not happening due to misunderstanding.

Joe Meno

When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.

Jim Roberts

Where all of this falls out is entirely up in the air. There was never any doubt that this was going to be a challenging and complex issue.

Ira Sachs

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

Nick Mason

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.

John Marhefka

The overall mood of the team is frustration because we have put in a lot of work and effort into practices and games. Our youth and inexperience has shown up in some games, but we are playing a lot of tough teams in a very competitive conference.

Lonnie Roberts

The overall effort was great all season long, and now we've got a little taste of the playoffs, too.

Wendee Saintsing

We played well enough for me to get everyone some playing time. We had a good team effort and everybody played well at times.

Wally Kesling

We play hard every night. But right now, we don't have the skills to turn that effort into wins. We're not quite where we need to be.

Wendell Jeffries

We played (with) the fifth-ranked team in the state on their home floor. It was a valiant effort by the kids.

Neal Miller

We plan on starting our clean-up efforts in about three weeks after getting our permits from the county.

Kevin Phillips

We pretty much got together and jammed. The songwriting process is an equal effort between all the members, even though I write most of the lyrics.

Ban Ki-moon

Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Randy Cunneyworth

When a big effort has been needed, he has risen to the occasion recently.

Lucy Punch

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

Jamie Dixon

Those are the things that separate him from the other guys, his passing and his touch. And he's willing to pay the price.

Wes Miller

We want to take them out of what they want to do. When they run their flex offense, they're pretty good. We tried to pressure the passing lanes. We did it better in the second half, especially down the stretch.

Brandan Wright

We stopped pressing them and started trying to get into the passing lanes.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Carol Leifer

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

William Shakespeare

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

Diane Wakoski

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

James Joyce

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Liane Moriarty

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

Meg Whitman

In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Ernest Hemingway

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Fiona Shaw

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.