Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

Audre Lorde

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

Alan Dershowitz

Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Ben Fountain

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

Dave Baseggio

We're just trying a different approach. He wasn't going to play. We'll give him a little more rest and see if that makes the symptoms better.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Christopher Shays

More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders,

Ben Whishaw

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Beatrix Potter

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

Barry Bonds

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Audre Lorde

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

Dee Wallace

A really good horror film has a story.

Dick Cavett

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Aimee Mann

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Arnold Palmer

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

Ashton Irwin

If things are going bad and life is tough, hang in there. Ride it out. Come out on top.

Todd Graham

This (program) was tough to turn around, but that's what I do.

Chris Graves

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we've got to keep working. It's always tough to go on the road, but we'll be prepared. That's all you can do.

Sherlyn Lattimer

She was a tenacious, tough and strong-willed woman.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Al Horford

We know what we have. If we can all come back and put it together, we can be a tough team.

Dave Franco

I'm a tough critic on myself.

John Stemberger

We're in a tough place. This is a Herculean task.