Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shockley

I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

Chuck Palahniuk

I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

Evangeline Lilly

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evo Morales

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Ellen Key

The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

David Byrne

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

George Williams

The outlook revision reflects the strengthening of the financial profile as pricing initiatives in the performance chemicals business and continued focus on cost reduction allowed OMNOVA to offset higher raw-material costs.

Corazon Aquino

When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.

Ben Elliot

I don't set out to be connected. My business has allowed me to meet lots of interesting people, some of whom have become friends; but you can't force it. This terrible word - 'networking' - I really hate.

William Lashner

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

William Kirby

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Virginia Postrel

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

Vincent Bugliosi

Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

Vincent Bugliosi

Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

Conor Maynard

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

China Mieville

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.

Don Rickles

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

Christoph Waltz

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

Barack Obama

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

Bonnie Raitt

Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in a musical family. My dad got to sing songs by some of the greatest writers of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Paul Bloom

Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Paul Bloom

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

Kate Bernheimer

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

Alan Cohen

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Alan Cohen

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

Alan Cohen

Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Becky G

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Brad Goreski

I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!

Bill Hader

There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.

Bill Hader

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Don Everly

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

James Blankenship

We played well for about a quarter and a half, but after that we didn't play well at all. When we didn't protect on that punt in the second quarter and gave them a short field, that really started to turn things. And then, when we got tired, we started making mental mistakes.

Tana Croft

We played well, but we still struggled on the service line. We missed 19 serves. We gave them 19 points and somehow still won.

Joe Killilea

We played well tonight. You have to give up something. We gave up the outside shots and they hit them.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Chuck Palahniuk

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Wendee Warg

We played with much more intensity tonight than we did last night (a 49-15 loss to Union Grove). We kept our heads in the game, and that kept us in the game. I think we played with confidence.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

Gloria Steinem

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Taylor Twellman

We need to keep our heads up, because we played very well.

Gene Allen

We can't hold our heads down. I think that's good. We'll be fine.

O. Singh

We are putting our heads together to see where we go from here.

Yakov Smirnoff

We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

Jerry Sloan

We had a lot of things we didn't do well. There was too much ducking our heads and going one-on-one. We're not going to win that way.

John Harper

We are in hiatus right now. We did phase one over the summer.

Miley Cyrus

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

Jim Parsons

My hiatus timeline is so minimal, there's only a select number of projects that I can go in for.

Lauren Ambrose

Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Jane Krakowski

If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.

Courtney Stadd

Any misstep in human spaceflight could spell a very long hiatus in human-driven exploration in the US.

Trey Anastasio

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Bill Cosby

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Malcolm Gladwell

Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Lauren Myracle

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

William Penn

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

Aerin Lauder

I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.

Zolal Habibi

Those are just some of the thousands of women who paid with their lives for their ideals.

David Anderson

We're doing this for our neighbors and to save lives and property,

The Talmud

There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish

Cheech Marin

The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.

Fran Townsend

When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about.

Julie Regan

We were originally scheduled to present it, but we need more time. We're still writing it.

John Romano

One will get more than what they originally bargained for, I guess.

Donald Rupe

It was originally more like a concert. We've turned it into a theatrical production.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Pete Wentz

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

Lin Loring

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

Lillian Bullock

We're like a tag-team. If she's not posting you up, I'm outside shooting the jumper.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Buddy Trask

We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.

Chris Boyd

We were trying to live outside regular society three months.

Charles de Lint

I've always been interested in the outsider.

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Foster Friess

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Birdman

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.

Walter Isaacson

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

Leo Veness

We will all soon realize that we are a society of spirit

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

John Thorne

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

Angelo Reyes

We are concerned. We are taking the appropriate measures, but we are not panicking.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

David Ramsey

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Cary Fukunaga

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

Solange Knowles

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Luka Sulic

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

Nandan Nilekani

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

Dhani Jones

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Larry Coker

We had a little edge, ... We took it a little personal.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.