Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Chris Janowski

The picture that is emerging is very grim. There appears to be a policy of expulsions of ethnic Albanians.

Christo

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Richard Rohr

I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

Sanjay Kumar

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

Connor Franta

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Terry Madden

What we have uncovered appears to be intentional doping of the worst sort,

Anne Wilson Schaef

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Tom Rooney

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Daniel Borochoff

When a big disaster happens, it heightens the philanthropic impulse.

Nancy Farmer

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

Nan Hayworth

We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.

Shaukat Sultan

We are handling the worst disaster in Pakistan's history.

Billy Tauzin

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

Gideon Koren

We are just writing ourselves a new disaster.

Octavia E. Butler

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

Mike Journee

We are discussing this possibility with the Legislature.

Marcey Evans

We are discussing (packages) with other locals as well.

Paolo Scaroni

We are discussing next steps to strengthen the alliance... maybe even in power.

Patrick Smith

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Catherine Peters

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.

Dick Hamm

We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion.

Dave Tomlin

We're still discussing that with LPGA. In the meantime, they've said that the provision is optional for the Fields, and we've opted out.

Drew Rosenhaus

We're still discussing a few things. But we're very close. It will be a great fit for Duane, and it will be a great fit for New England.

Charles Bickers

The important thing is that we're still negotiating. We're still discussing the issues.

Donald Newhouse

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

Nik Wallenda

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

Victor LaValle

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

Kent Conrad

What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years.

Kathleen Hanna

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

Liberty Ross

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

Suresh Raina

I am getting better at facing the bouncers, as I know opposition tries to use those as a weapon against me. Yet, no one is perfect, and he takes time to master a particular thing.

Vince Cerbone

We had her playing more facing the basket. She saw the floor real well this season. We had lots of people make better cuts, and she did a good job of distributing the ball. She's a real unselfish player.

Jared Bernstein

The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also that they're facing lower wages. If wages were keeping pace with inflation, the pinch wouldn't be as hard.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Dominic Cooper

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Nan Hayworth

Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.

Candice Patton

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

Dick Cheney

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

Walter Benjamin

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Margaret Beckett

We are keeping these issues under review but there are lots of questions about the effectiveness of the vaccine and how it will mask the disease. We don't rule out the use of vaccine but there are a number of questions still to be addressed.

Bill Holmes

We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Lasse Hallstrom

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Naomi Campbell

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Neil Cross

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.

Dusty Baker

We are going to try to take him at a natural progression to have him ready when the season starts. We are going to watch him closely.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

George Gaylord Simpson

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

Chris Mohr

One of the good things about the Paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet.

Stephen Jay Gould

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

Stephen Jay Gould

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

Evan Rachel Wood

I was always pale. And I'm glad that I can be open about my paleness now.

Lily Cole

Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

Jim Broadbent

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

Nicole Richie

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

Golda Meir

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

Elizabeth Warren

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Charles Nelson Reilly

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

Gillian Armstrong

It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Rob Babcock

We can't get him unless he suddenly turns into a minimum-salary guy,

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Sam Worthington

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

Donita Stewart

She is very independent, and suddenly she couldn't do the things that she's always done.

Robert Brown

Where had I been now if the worst befell? / And here we are riding, she and I.

Charles Spurgeon

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

Charles Spurgeon

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Bryan Stevenson

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Diana Gabaldon

Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.

Ed Koch

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

Demi Lovato

Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

Dean Koontz

the worst happens when you least expect it

Bob Marley

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy