Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Henry Bragg

Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

Elizabeth Warren

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.

Doc Hastings

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Haz Iwendi

The police moved in, shot at the (kidnappers') vehicle. They killed the driver of the vehicle but the kidnappers dropped the dead body and went away.

Greg Wilkinson

The pilot was able to eject from the jet, but we were actually able to locate his body about 300 yards away from the crash site. Unfortunately he did not survive.

Mallory Factor

The PCAOB is an unaccountable, unconstitutional regulatory body. It's the poster child for the dangers of a runaway bureaucracy.

Brunello Cucinelli

St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

Bonnie Tyler

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

David H. Murdock

It is never too late to change the way you eat - once you do, your body will thank you with a longer and healthier life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Did you ever think that your body is holy? You are a child of God. Your body is His creation.

Erin Heatherton

Healthy body image is not something that you're going to learn from fashion magazines.

Edmund White

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Tite Kubo

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

Steve Breen

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

Gary Sick

We know that they have had the drawings for P-2 centrifuge and they've publicized that.

Gerald Scarfe

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

Marilyn Coker

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

Steve Bassett

First-graders send in drawings of the gecko. Great-grandmothers do needlepoint pillows of the gecko. Hardly a day goes by when someone doesn't suggest an idea about what the gecko should do next.

Ben Carson

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Bruce Coville

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Nat Wolff

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Ernst Fischer

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

Emil Zatopek

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Corey Hart

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

Diana Nyad

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

Diana Nyad

It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Todd Solondz

To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Ali Larijani

I want to say that the process of enrichment is the sovereign right of any country. You should not take away this right from nations which have a peaceful nuclear program, which consequently, includes also enrichment.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Peter Bicks

All parties are trying to feel their way around and that includes how juries will react to their cases. It's only after you have a track record that you can really refine your strategy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

Adam Ereli

This includes working level officials in those ministries.

Kat Graham

My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.

Pauline Trigere

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Steven Page

Those of us that have the opportunity to have a mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to make the world a better place.

Roger Penske

We have an opportunity to show the world that this is a much different place than it was in 1982, the last time we hosted the Super Bowl. A renaissance is taking place in what was a decaying inner city, and I can't wait for the world to see the new Detroit.

Gretchen Rubin

One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Delphine de Girardin

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Sathya Baba

Interview, Don't clamor for an interview. Instead search for the INNER VIEW.

Lauryn Hill

I have inner peace. It's a different person.

Longchenpa

Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.

Larry Anderson

We played a lot better in the second half, but they're physical and we didn't get a lot of second chances.

Ansel Elgort

I'm a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.

Leila Janah

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.

Tom Demko

We didn't play real physical on defense. I didn't feel like we played hard.

Darcy Wingo

We got off to a terrible start and we never recovered. Amador was very quick and very physical. They didn't press, but it was a very physical game.

Cory Booker

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Miguel Angel Silvestre

I studied physical therapy, and I started to study theater because my aunt is a theater director.

Gary Apodaca

We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically but not mentally, and we had a long talk after the game.

Dave Duncan

To be a vert guy, you have to train and put on your gear. It's physically demanding.

David Bonior

We're not going away, ... These problems aren't going to go away.

Cindy Clough

We still have the same problems we had 30 years ago.

Alfred Eder

Tomorrow our biathletes will have a lot of problems because of this situation. But it is important that they run.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Lisa Unger

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Charles Caleb Colton

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.

Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

Scott Adkins

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

Andrew Klink

We are going to win the rest of our games.

Peter O'Toole

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Eric Brown

We're not trying to say these things aren't available. We didn't want to restrict the player.

Tassos Papadopoulos

We are satisfied with the terms. The rest is procedural.

Lee Humphrey

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

Le Corbusier

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Diane von Furstenberg

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.

Walter Benjamin

Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

James Keller

A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

Jen Lancaster

I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

Denis Petukhov

We are like unbelievably excited, like I can't even tell you. I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything.

Dogen

In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?

William Shakespeare

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

William Shakespeare

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Jeffrey Kluger

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.

Ludwig von Mises

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

William Shakespeare

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

John Montgomery

It's useful to validate specifications as they go through standardization.

Christopher Hill

as long as I feel it is useful to be here.

Ellen Terry

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Susan Wyderko

Disclosures are only as useful as they are available.

John Stone

They were toast, pretty much done. Most of the harbors were at the end of their useful life.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Lord John Russell

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Saint Teresa of Avila

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.

Ludwig von Mises

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built.

Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.