Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Postrel

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.

Arnie Berman

The outsize rally in the publicly traded debt for companies in this sector suggests that the bond market is sending a signal that the communications equipment sub-sector is particularly attractive at present relative to other technology sub-sectors,

Beeban Kidron

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

Walter Kirn

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

Tavi Gevinson

There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

Miranda Hart

I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.

Nikki Reed

I like a really natural looking body, so I'm not into muscles and looking like you just did 1,000 pull-ups and sit-ups and like you only eat lean turkey. That's not for me. I just like people to look like people, and so I think it's really attractive when men don't have perfect bodies.

Nadia Ali

I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I'm not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys.

Indra Nooyi

India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.

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.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Nikola Tesla

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Todd Haynes

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

Vonda Shepard

I seem to be drawn to the really romantic songs.

Freddy Rodriguez

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Lauren Myracle

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

Mike Nichols

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

Nancy Horan

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

Tom Coughlin

The poise in the noise, the false starts we had...That's ridiculous,

Christine Pelosi

To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

Ann Hood

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

Amity Shlaes

Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.

Yan Noblot

We get a lot of false positives and we need to reduce the number.

Ryan Smith

We don't have any troubles here. I don't know what goes on around the league, but I talked to a few players and by and large I think this is false information.

Kyle Busch

Usually, things in the media are false and that's just what it comes down to sometimes, I'm not going there, bud.

Leslie Stephen

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false ideaoccupying that niche.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Bob Newhart

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

James Gleick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Kara Bunte

The outpouring of support has been amazing. People are now starting to see the images on TV and want to help.

Bruce Jackson

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Nate Lowman

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

Daria Werbowy

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

William Butler Yeats

Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.

Marshall Strickland

We?re really mirror images of each other. Dials is physical, Marco is physical. . . . That?s our game.

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Julie Myers

We're seeing more new material and more new victims. Tragically and frighteningly, the kids in these images are getting younger, and the images are getting more and more violent and graphic.

Henri Matisse

These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel.

Frank O'Hara

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

Dan Stevenson

He just has that intangible that you can't really put a word on. He's got 'it'.

Tom Davies

I think he's very well prepared. I think he has all the qualities you have to have.

Steve Klesaris

She stood out pretty strong on our list. She had the qualities we liked.

Rig Veda

In real worship,we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.

Ben Barnes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Edward James Olmos

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Kathleen Edwards

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Alan Cohen

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

Alan Cohen

True champions are team players.

Alan Cohen

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Common

Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Rich Jordan

We did what we were supposed to do, but we are not where we are going to be. We are going to be better.

Pig Miller

We did what we were supposed to do and now we've got to come back and try to win it.

Nana Visitor

I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

Nikki Reed

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Chris Richards

We didn't play like we were supposed to in the first half. We want to win so bad.

Bonnie Langford

I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.

Sam Reed

We were supposed to get it the first of December.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Ralph Lauren

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

Tamara Mellon

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Nicola Sturgeon

Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!

Lawrence Durrell

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Nancy Pelosi

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

Nina Easton

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.