Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Burns

We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.

Nitin Gupta

We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.

Kent Beck

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

Mark Ellis

We bring a unique fusion of medspa and business development expertise to market for our clients, ... In close conjunction with the client, the character, style and ambiance of each medspa are in perfect alignment with the elements of its unique community and target market. Passion for an early success manifests itself in the way we usher the client through the construction phase making sure that the architect, contractor and client work together cohesively.

Matthew Pearl

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Rick Wagoner

We're pleased to see the significant progress in our first quarter results and in the implementation of all four elements of our North American turnaround plan.

D. H. Lawrence

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

William Shakespeare

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Carl Jung

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Carl Jung

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Byron Katie

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Bridget Riley

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Bill Crawford

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

Antonin Scalia

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

Edwin Meese

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Dana Gioia

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.

Elizabeth Taylor

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

Elizabeth Bowen

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Abraham Lincoln

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.