Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vera Farmiga

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

Don Everly

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

Brian Skerry

I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine.

Matthew Fox

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

Mike White

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

Varley O'Connor

What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

Colin Morgan

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Dan Hendricks

The overall plan has always been to get there. Luckily, we've been improving and he's doing well. Once we get through Saturday and everything goes well, we'll start planning on from there.

David Friedman

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Victoria Osteen

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

Nayvadius Cash

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

Ray Charles

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Eric Betzig

Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.

Preity Zinta

I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.

Norman Schwarzkopf

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Alma Gluck

One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

Mark Tuohey

This is merely a stake in the ground. There will be no arbitration. We'll have this resolved before then. We're moving very vigorously on several fronts to finalize this matter.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Jane Greer

My mouth was too large, my eyes turned out, and my legs mere toothpicks.

Michael Sheen

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Bill Johnson

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Jodi Picoult

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Paul Arden

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Elizabeth Warren

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Ralph Nader

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Patrick Murphy

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

Sergei Lavrov

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

Tommy Lee Jones

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Karl Rove

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

Alexis Hornbuckle

I think I psyched myself out getting to the basket.

Lois Brobst

I would really like to know what the psyche is of a person who litters.

Terence McKenna

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

Terence McKenna

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

Terence McKenna

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Terence McKenna

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

Terence McKenna

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Terence McKenna

This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Lois Lowry

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Patti Smith

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Moira Kelly

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.