Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Hockney

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Barnett Newman

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Audrey Tautou

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Deb Caletti

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Diana Gabaldon

While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

Charles Darwin

It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

Bill Hicks

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

David Douglass

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

David Bryant

God cannot lead you on the basis of facts that you do not know.

Audrey Hepburn

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Antony Jay

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

Derek Jacobi

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Al Gore

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Ajay Naidu

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Billy Bob Thornton

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Edward Norton

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

Brandon Sanderson

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

Bashar al-Assad

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Charlotte Bronte

He made me love him without looking at me.

Arthur Helps

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.