Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Arnold

Thrilled to be honoured by the ISM and to be joining such an eminent list of members who have received the Distinguished Musician Award.

Craig Brown

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.

Kevin Curry

I wouldn't really expect them to use power of eminent domain.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Terry Collins

We had to stop doing what we were doing in the middle of the job because it looked like we might be forced out by eminent domain. Now that it looks like we're going to be here for a while, we don't mind spending the money.

Adam Clarke

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

Ayelet Zurer

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Dana Berliner

The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.

Douglas Aiken

I look at it when you do that as a form of eminent domain.

Kevin Rahm

I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.

Matthew Burns

When I grow up, I want to be an artist, a person who sews things and a guitar player. I hope I am famous someday.

Doug Harvey

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

Alexandre Dumas

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

Kate Winslet

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Ted Ligety

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

Elizabeth Peyton

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Cameron Russell

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Kacey Musgraves

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

David Remnick

I actually have great hopes for the future.

Baroness Orczy

even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Louis Lupin

We always hope we can resolve things short of litigation.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Amy Hill

We always get a lot of last-minute registrations. Hopefully we are on target to reach our goal.

Alain de Botton

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Blaise Pascal

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

David Rockwell

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

David Rockwell

In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Riesman

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

David Hockney

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution...

David Brenner

We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.

Barry Commoner

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

Audre Lorde

As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

Audre Lorde

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Judy Leiterman

Word's getting out. It will be interesting to see how many others will be able to pull it off.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

Rebel Talbert

New South Wales crews are on standby to support others states if needed.

Owen Arthur

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.