Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin McDonald

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Joe Wurzelbacher

I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion other than what they state.

Karen Friel

We needed a run. We needed a stretch where we could get three or four turnovers in a row to get back in the game. But they never allowed us to do that.

Douglas Booth

I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

Tyler Perry

We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean?

Tom Stoppard

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

Kevin Mitnick

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

Rob Manuel

Understand 'Minecraft,' and you'll begin to understand the power of games. Like any good story, this one begins with a man and a dream. Markus 'Notch' Persson first started on the project to create a three-dimensional world vast in scope, with elements that allowed you to customize your character into the way you want them.

Robert Reich

As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big.

David Walker

I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

David Walker

Karate is for life, not points.

David Rockefeller

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

David Rockefeller

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Horowitz

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

David Horowitz

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

David Hilbert

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality

David Hockney

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

David Hockney

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

Rob Manuel

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

Tim Birkhead

Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential for avoiding collisions in flight, or for capturing fast-moving or camouflaged prey. Birds' eyes, however, are deceptive - they are bigger than they look.

Raymond Loewy

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

Rachel Remen

Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

Bill Gates

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.

Heather Strong

She tells us about staying in the moment, avoiding distractions, staying confident. She talks about team dynamics.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Ned Riley

We're back to looking at the fundamentals and, at least temporarily, avoiding gossip and rumors.

Mary Kelly

I am ideologically opposed to involving private businesses for the purpose of avoiding prevailing wage rates.

David Walliams

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

David Walliams

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

David Walliams

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

David Walliams

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

David Rockefeller

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Riesman

One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

David Riesman

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

David Henry Hwang

Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

Benjamin Franklin

Life with fools consists in drinking; with the wise man, thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.

Harvey Penick

Life consists of a lot of minor annoyances and a few matters of real consequence.

Jean Bruyere

Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much

St. John

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Jimmie Yakel

The program consists of seniors from homes, and also seniors (who) live with a loved one, or a caregiver.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married

Plato

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Michael Specter

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

David Riesman

Our society offers little in the way of reeducation for those who have been torn away from their traditional culture and suddenly exposed to all the blandishments of mass culture-even the churches which follow the hillbillies to the city often make use of the same "hard sell" that the advertisers and politicians do.

David Horowitz

The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.

David Hockney

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

David Hockney

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Beatrice Webb

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Audrey Hepburn

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Dennis Kucinich

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Dennis Kucinich

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

Charles Churchill

To copy faults is want of sense.

Charles Darwin

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Jane Austen

...faultless in spite of all her faults...

Jane Austen

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Augusto Pinochet

He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.

Bram Stoker

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Oscar Wilde

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Hasidic Proverb

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none

William Shakespeare

She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.

David Henry Hwang

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

David Henry Hwang

I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

David Brooks

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

Ben Stiller

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

Bear Grylls

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Audrey Tautou

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's important to think of the setting six months ago, ... Six months ago, the Iraqis refused to have inspectors in their country. They were ignoring 16 resolutions of the United Nations.

Marco Rubio

Our leaders have to stop ignoring the impact that culture is having on our nation.

Travis Bradberry

Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs; they leave managers.

Shawn Boggs

She will make an immediate impact with her speed.

Lee Bermejo

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Jeffrey Nelson

We have no immediate plans to run that service. What runs on our network are our services.

Kenneth Branagh

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

Sergei Ivanov

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

Brad Lidge

Obviously I wish I had the pitch back. That's kind of the immediate feeling.

Keith Ayoob

People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results.

Joseph Curran

From the discussions I've had, the immediate target is 'where are these tires and how many are involved, how many does Firestone think are involved, and what are we going to do about it,

Gregory Campbell

Nevertheless our sympathies at this time will very much be with her immediate family.

Charles Darwin

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

William Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.

Tom Chillemi

Left-handers have a natural hook. They really have an advantage.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Andy Nota

We did most of the work on the beach. We didn't intrude on the natural habitat.

Jane Austen

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Aubrey McClendon

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Aretha Franklin

I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.

A. N. Wilson

She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Eddie Perez

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Between your faith and my Glock nine millimeter, I'll take the Glock.

Booth Tarkington

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Gerald Ryan

She has only been out of a place once in nine starts.

Holly Derrick

She slept for nine solid hours. She was emotionally spent.

Carolyn Maloney

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Arianna Huffington

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

John O'Connor

My understanding was that he was one of the nine hostages, not that he took nine hostages.

Miranda July

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

George C. Marshall

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

George Santayana

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

Lionel Tiger

Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence.

John Huber

We're just going to be watching and monitoring.

Jan Jones

We're just watching the legislation. We're not lobbying it. We're not negotiating.

Betha Aris

I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!

Sandra Bullock

I feel like I always have someone watching my back.

James Farrior

Yeah, he's watching his weight all right. Watching it expand.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Stacy Keibler

I think there were a lot of women out there watching and voting, and there were a lot of men out there watching, but not voting.

Willie Parker

Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.