Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Warren Farrell

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

William Pepper

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Cavendish

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Wesley Clark

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

Vivienne Westwood

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

Van Morrison

I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Billy Graham

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

Will Shields

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Wendelin Van Draanen

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Virginia Postrel

Fit experts envision a future in which you'd carry your body scan in your cell phone or on a thumb drive, using the data to order clothes online or find them in stores. But who's going to pay for all those scanners, which cost about $35,000 each, and the staff to run them?

Virginia Postrel

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Billy Graham

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Paul Haggis

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

Simon Mainwaring

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Ed Orgeron

When a recruit comes in or commits, we lay out everything all the do's and don'ts and conditions of that (scholarship offer). We have to protect ourselves. Protect the program.

Kristen Meyer

We have made an effort to get the message out there. But we're not working in ideal conditions here.

Michelle Jensen

We did well on a day where the conditions were not very good.

Bill Owens

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Orison Swett Marden

The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

Debbie Ford

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

Shawne Merriman

We're a team with speed. No matter what the conditions are, we have to go out and get pressure, but it was a little tougher today than it is usually. The footing out there was horrible.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Dougray Scott

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Norman Schwarzkopf

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

Simon Sinek

Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.'

Alice Oswald

I hate not managing to speak clearly. I really hate it. I get a feeling of claustrophobia - like I'm locked in my own head - if what I've said hasn't reached someone.

Ving Rhames

I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.

Lynn Schusterman

In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

Le Corbusier

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I have to give moral support to my supporters. If I'm not going to fight anymore, that might hurt the feelings of my supporters. They are fighting for democracy. They are fighting for the rule of law.

Zac Efron

I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

Walter F. Ulmer

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

Valerie June

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

Val Kilmer

The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Eric Betzig

Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

Dominika Cibulkova

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

Ed Rendell

Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

Rob Childress

When A&M and Texas play, it's on. We're not going to have any trouble being motivated for the series.

Anselm Kiefer

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

Byron Katie

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Peter Drucker

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Bobby Sherman

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Tarence Kinsey

You just get so motivated to play a team like Florida. Everyone just seemed to be on the same page.

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Erik Bruhn

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Seinabo Sey

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

Adam Smith

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn't get funding.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Drew Rosenhaus

We had a productive meeting. We talked about things important to us, and they talked about things important to them.

Hal Mumme

We haven't been as productive as we'd like. We just have to keep working.

Dave Barry

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?

Daniel Goldstein

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?

Ayn Rand

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Peter Wallace

You can be productive while you are doing that. Time is money.

Mario Hernandez

We feel this will be one of the most productive work sites for them.

Stanley Hauerwas

I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.

Nick Saban

He has been one of our most productive players.

Christopher Hill

We had another long day. We made a little progress but I must say we didn't make enough progress.

Alan Cohen

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Brian Ferentz

We still have a ways to go. I think we're making progress, but it's early.

Mark Mann

We'll progress him over the weekend in regards to his running, ... and just take it day by day and see how he feels.

Peter Brown

Time is running short for her to show progress.

Ludwig von Mises

Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

Ludwig von Mises

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

Bud Selig

We've made some progress on a lot of issues. But progress in the end is when you have a deal.

Dale Jr

We are going to win six or seven races and be in the top three in the Chase. If we don't win the championship, it won't be by much.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Richard Childress

We were going to keep the 3, he just wanted to see it winning races and winning championships.

Dan Wheldon

To win six races is something I'll look back on and think that was a strong season.

Ludwig von Mises

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Baz Luhrmann

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...

Charles W. Chesnutt

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Charles Edward Merriam

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

Alan Watts

If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body, this is almost precisely what has happened in the organization of cells which compose our own bodies. We have already done it. [...] If all this ends with the human race leaving no more trace of itself in the universe than a system of electronic patterns, why should that trouble us? For that is exactly what we are now!

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Richard Corso

We play more of a team offense. She's not going to know who's going to go off.

Kerry Loughran

We play a team game. That?s how we win championships.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Matt Gordon

We did what we had to do to win. They (Lincoln) are a tough team - they play real hard. I give them credit.

Jonathan Toews

When you see him up close, you see all the little things he does and as a teammate it is appreciated.

Dick Cheney

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Romeo Crennel

We still have a long way to go, ... We're going to be competitive with this team at some point. When that is, I don't know.

Mark Teixeira

We still feel like this is a team that can compete. Unfortunately, this was our start, and we've got to turn it around.