Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Marc Chandler

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

Rob Bennett

The PC makers are going to have to make their own decision how they're going to handle this based on their own business needs. It's not something that Microsoft can dictate.

Harry Forbes

The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based on that philosophy.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in January is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector, but at slower rates of increase.

Ralph Kauffman

The overall indication in December is continued economic growth in the non-manufacturing sector with a cautiously optimistic outlook as we enter 2006.

Louis Wong

The peak of the interest rate cycle may be much higher than expected. Continued inflation in the US indicated a need for a rate hike for few more times until next year.

Anthony Weiner

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Meriwether Lewis

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

Laurence Yep

At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'

Larry Scott

This schedule reflects the continued global expansion of and investment in women's professional tennis. The return of the Tour Championships to Europe in Madrid is particularly exciting for our European fans and players, and will ensure a fantastic finale to the 2006 season.

Manfred von Richthofen

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

Besa Deda

There is little doubt that firms in the US have plenty of pricing power, given the continued strength of the US consumer.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Sergei Lavrov

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

Le Corbusier

By law, all buildings should be white.

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Dean Stanley

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

English Proverbs

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

Trent Duffy

When any official sign or seal is being used inappropriately the party is notified,

James Gleick

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

Markus Gandler

We are considering making an official protest about this to the IOC.

Alan Nero

We have not received any official notice. It is all still at a standstill.

Jenny Frost

We haven't officially split up - we are still together as a band,

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Michael Bennett

My injury, ... is officially a thing of the past.

Sergei Kuprianov

We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.

Jeff Foxworthy

I never thought I would do a game show, but now I guess I'm now officially in that genre.

Christo

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Paul Park

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

Brent Trout

We need to have this project done before the school opens.

Jim Wolfgang

We don't have any project that repeats what's going on in the classroom. All this is value-added.

Viktor Vekselberg

We are not shutting down all our projects while we wait for an answer.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Nick Cave

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Gary Vaynerchuk

If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.

Noel Gallagher

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Howard Deutsch

It's a classic, and it's been relevant to three generations of children.

Akio Toyoda

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

Walter Isaacson

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

Catherine Hardwicke

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Walt Mossberg

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Common

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

Samuel Butler

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christian McKay

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Pink

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Walter Benjamin

It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.

Walter Benjamin

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

James Thurber

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Ralph Waite

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.