Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Cecelia Ahern

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Bette Davis

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Bernadette Devlin

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bertrand Russell

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Jim Moeller

I think we all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us in many ways, not only politically but also in our own communities.

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Aimee Mann

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Arlen Specter

It is my hope that partisanship will stop at the columns of the Senate.

Ruth Rendell

I am interested in names and what they say; it is true. I like to look at the columns of baby names in the newspapers. But I don't run out of new ones for my characters.

Jean Baudrillard

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

Gregory Benford

Around 1930, a small new phenomenon arose in Depression-ridden America, spawned out of the letter columns in science fiction magazines: fandom.

Idriss Deby

The rebel columns have been entirely destroyed and there is now only some light weapon fire near the National Assembly, but the situation is now completely under control.

Charlie Pierce

In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

Mike Williams

We gutted the entire building, ... The only things left were the exterior walls, the columns and the floors.

Winston Churchill

The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness

Yumei Wang

To any engineer looking at this, you would have immediate concerns because the columns are skinny and spaced far apart.

John Carney

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

Jim Nussle

We're going to work with the committees and see what's doable.

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Mayim Bialik

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

Fay Weldon

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

John Davies

We can't spend a dime. All we can say is, 'Here are the offices. These people need to be moved.' It's been said before by previous committees and in previous reports. We're just looking for options.

Milos Forman

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Vanessa Poster

We are always looking for people to fill committees and work on other projects.

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.