Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

Paul Johnson

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

David Walton

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

Cristina Henriquez

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

Trent Reznor

There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.'

Toni Trucks

Learning all the intricacies, all the nerd elements to 'Twilight' was really fun.

Bob Blackburn

We have lost some elements to the river. We just don't know what the water might do.

Joe Blodgett

When they extended their zone, the floor shrunk. It was like playing on an elementary school floor for us.

Eugene Kennedy

The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

Neil Cohen

The patients who have had the more serious events are very sick patients. I think the purpose of this letter is for oncologists to get more information to make treatment decisions.

Atharva Veda

The past is 'truth' because events have already happened and they can not be questioned.

Dallas Roberts

I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward, and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots.

James Rubin

We recognize there are a lot of events that are converging at this very moment, but we don't see them as linked and we don't see them as a crisis. We see them as hurdles that we obviously will need to overcome.

Ellie Acampora

We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.

Eric Howe

We were strong on floor, and I think that gave us some momentum going over to vault. Having those two events back to back was big.

John Parsons

Typically events like this would take four months, maybe six months,

James Goodwin

Today's events are a tragedy and our prayers are with everyone at this time,

Mack Bradley

Year after year, we've had growth with our events, Katrina aside. But when you throw Katrina in the mix, we have the potential for an even greater number of people.

Ellen G. White

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ellen G. White

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

debbie nicholson

the path of the wolf will guide you through the night

Chuck Close

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Nick Jonas

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Estelle

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Erwin McManus

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

Catherine Helen Spence

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Cathy Guisewite

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

David Brainerd

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

Deepika Padukone

I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.

Edward Everett

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

Ricky Gervais

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

Kevin Starr

Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.

Dan Castellaneta

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Etta James

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

C. J. Mahaney

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Nikola Tesla

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Trey Parker

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.

Christopher Koch

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Sean M. Carroll

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Tim Curry

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

James Clarke

We have two skeletons preserved, the larger lying on top of the other one.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Cassandra Dunn

The problem was much larger than we expected.

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Nicolas Cage

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

Roy Jorgenson

We had chances. We had looks. We played a 'B' game. There were moments where we played 'A' soccer.

Lance Armstrong

Those are motivating moments for me. That's the way I can give back to someone who is in the same position I was.

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Mike Meixler

Volunteers don't have to spend a lot of money. They can just do ordinary things.

Pud Galvin

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.

Alan Moore

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Dee Snider

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

Desiree Rogers

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

Dean Koontz

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

Edward de Bono

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Mack Brown

We'll let him get settled at linebacker, and if he wants to play some tailback, we will see if he can do both. He is just big, powerful and fast.

Robert Kiyosaki

Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

Gore Vidal

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

Samuel Butler

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Lauren Oliver

With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.

Alan Dershowitz

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Ludwig von Mises

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

Ludwig von Mises

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

Heinrich Himmler

Atheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

James A. Baldwin

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Gus Frerotte

Yeah, that would be nice. That's kind of how it goes, how it should be. The world doesn't stop turning. Eventually, your time runs out.

Jim Tracy

We got the three runs in the third, but we did nothing else. That's all we did.

Alan Trammell

We didn't score any runs. We had opportunities to score runs and we didn't do it. That was it.

Howard Fast

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

O. J. Simpson

We had two runs and we didn't get third.

Rich Falter

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

Rogers Beasley

Water runs right through it. No more sloppy racetracks.

Jon Gruden

That was the play of the game. He runs down on that and just makes an unbelievable effort. There were just a lot of things like that for us today.

Pam Adams

We really should have scored 10 runs in that game.

Kristan Higgins

I think it's always interesting to learn what the seemingly spontaneous one-nighter actually reveals about a character.

Karrie Webb

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Miranda Hart

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Oscar Sanchez

Webb seems to be up to its usual games.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Miranda Lambert

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

M. Scott Peck

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Arthur Baer

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

Elizabeth Warren

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Ben Elliot

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Samuel Butler

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Glenn Beck

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

Peter Ustinov

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Lindsay Price

The truth is, if you're lucky enough to work, you're a lucky actor.