Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Steinberg

The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.

Laura Garrison

The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got off the 'Insomniac' comedy tour and had a TV special last Sunday, so it's very timely. He's just really funny and a lot of college kids like him.

John C. Calhoun

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

John C. Calhoun

A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

Nick Jonas

My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artists that shaped my musical landscape. For instance, Kings of Leon played a big part in that.

Francis Alys

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all.

Drew Goddard

Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.

Glenn Greenwald

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.

Glenn Greenwald

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Yolanda Adams

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

Werner Herzog

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

Wayne Rooney

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Warren Farrell

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Walead Beshty

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Walter Crane

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

Warren Stephens

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

William Kirby

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

Vijender Singh

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

William Labov

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

Chet Faker

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

Evangeline Lilly

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined.

Geoff Garin

The polls are pretty clear that voters want limits on the government's power.

Glynn Birch

The poll clearly shows this is a major concern, especially during the holidays because of increased drinking and increased driving.

E. B. White

The police said the woman had been talking to my daughter, but she never actually met up with her. They have cleared this woman of everything.

Rick Havercroft

The over and back call, we were clearly pushed over the line.

Katsuya Okada

The overall situation has now become clear ... the DPJ has suffered a great setback.

Kathleen Blanco

The path that I've outlined - moving our people from shelters or the homes of in-laws or friends and into hotels and transitional trailer communities here in Louisiana - gives our people hope, ... It gives them a clear path that they can see, a path that will help them get their lives together and get them home to Louisiana.

Evangeline Lilly

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

David Selby

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Nancy Gibbs

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Ninette de Valois

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Eric Shinseki

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

Caity Lotz

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

Don Cornelius

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Tom Chatfield

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

Tamara Taylor

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

Common

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

William Fonville

When I get inspired to write, the song just seems to come to me all at once. All I have to do is keep living to stay inspired.

Marcus Samuelsson

I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.

Ariana Grande

I was definitely inspired by Madonna.

Pauline Flynn

Well be inspired by these poles and their messages for years to come.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Nick Flynn

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Maynard Webb

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.

Rachel Johnson

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Charlie Trotter

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Teri Garr

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

Vint Cerf

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

Andy Murray

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

Alan Alda

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

Ruben Aguilar

The president's office does not intervene in union decisions. We respect citizens' demonstrations.

Kevin Evans

You can't come here as a Pollyanna. We're able to intervene upstream and stop it.

Mike Smith

The problem before was, so you intervene -- where do you send people.

David Borden

Going to school is their way of getting back on track. This is a second punishment that can intervene with the process of recovery.

Javier Solana

NATO is ready to intervene if the situation requires,

Alan Steinberg

If any party tries to intervene in the litigation, it could be delayed.

Masood Khan

If we do not intervene aggressively now, many lives will be lost,

Bob Lynch

At least the ECB showed that it is still willing to intervene to support the euro,

Seijiro Takeshita

If there is an accelerated depreciation to 105 yen, they will intervene without a doubt.

Nick Jonas

I think a lot of what you do in acting, and for the most part singing and dancing and everything, is trial and error. It's all about just seeing what works, and if it does, to use it, and if not, to throw it away.

Dan Grunfeld

We are just seeing more and more of it.

John Landis

We were just seeing how wacky you can be.

Von Roebuck

We are seeing some cases. It could be life-threatening.

Wayne Brown

We are seeing many gawkers on the interstate bridges,

Scott Ross

We're not seeing it as a new video.

David Levine

You are going to start seeing a lot of squirming and shaking now.

Cheryl Kirkland

Usually, we're kind of seeing what the other team has...but we were overheated in the beginning. It's just a different temperature down here.

Bob Cotton

We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,

Kim Zimmerman

We are not going to have a lot of time to do things outside, but a lot of teams are in pretty much the same situation this time of the year.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Louis Michel

Unfortunately we have such a situation in Europe, ... Demonstrations do help.

Dan Fogleman

We are pausing and evaluating the situation thoroughly at this point.

Charlotte Rampling

We are on the verge of this situation all our lives,

Pat Gillick

Usually, when you come into a situation like this,

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

John Gordon Sinclair

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,